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Guest conductor James Gaffigan and principal percussionist Cynthia Yeh join forces for Eternal Rhythm by the Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman. Yeh performs the 25-minute concerto on vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, bells, and crotales (tuned cymbals). Sunday, August 8, 8:00 pm
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Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari
In the late 15th-early 16th centuries, Spain’s Ferdinand and Isabella exiled their country’s Jewish community. The Sephardic Jews scattered around the Mediterranean Sea and made their way to the Western Hemisphere. Elbio brings us some distinctive Sephardic music. Saturday, August 14, 7:00 pm
Exploring Music
Gypsy, Romany, Gitana, Roma: the descriptive names for this ancient people vary. Host Bill McGlaughlin looks at the influence the music of the Roma has had on a variety of composers. Monday-Thursday, August 16-19, 7:00 pm Friday, August 20, 8:00 pm
Sunday 1
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice:
Hymn Festival
7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in E, R. 269, The Four Seasons: Spring – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; English Chamber Orch/David Lockington. E One EOMCD-7790. [9:52] Joaquín Turina Bailete, Op. 79 – Sara Davis Buechner, p. Connoiseur CD-4186. [11:43] Heitor Villa-Lobos Danças características africanas – Brazilian Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3409. [11:21]
1:00 Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 88 in G – Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil. Sony SK-66253. [19:06] Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concertino in c minor/E-flat major, Op. 26 – Richard Stoltzman, cl; Slovak Radio Sym/Kirk Trevor. Navona Records NV-5801. [10:30] Joseph Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne, Set 1: Baïlèro (Shepherd’s Song) – Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; National Phil/Charles Gerhardt. RCA 60695-2. [5:18] 2:00 Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto in g minor, R. 315, The Four Seasons: Summer – Arabella Steinbacher, v; Munich Chamber Orch. Pentatone PTC-5186746. [10:20] Peter Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op. 71: March, Polichinelle (The Clown), Dance of the Reed Pipes, Waltz of the Flowers – Stewart Goodyear, p. Steinway & Sons 30040. [13:22] Various Styrian Dances, Op. 165; Don Carlos: Ballet de la Reine, Prestissimo – Vienna Phil/Franz Welser-Möst. Sony 44071-2 (2). [10:20] 3:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 – Paul Lewis, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902416. [19:38] Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger: Act 1 & Act 3 Preludes; Dance of the Apprentices; Entrance of the Mastersingers – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. RCA 63301-2. [22:04] 4:00 James Horner Legends of the Fall: The Ludlows – Royal Liverpool Phil/David Arnold. Mercury 4812810. [6:21] Alan Hovhaness Celestial Fantasy, Op. 44 – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE-3157. [8:15] George Butterworth Two English Idylls – English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate. EMI CDC7-47945-2. [11:49] Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto in F, R. 293, The Four Seasons: Autumn – Gil Shaham, v; Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 439933-2. [10:15]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Ottorino Respighi
The Pines of Rome – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDC7-47316-2. [22:08] There’s more Respighi on our Muti-led Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00. Mario CastelnuovoTedesco Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 99 – Eduardo Fernández, g; English Chamber Orch/Miguel Gómez Martínez. Decca 417199-2. [19:44] Antonio Vivaldi
All prerecorded music on WFMT is provided by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library.
Most live performances on WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
Violin Concerto in f minor, R. 297, The Four Seasons: Winter – Elliott Golub, v; Music of the Baroque Orch/ Thomas Wikman. Music of the Baroque MB-111. [8:46]
6:00 Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Much Ado About Nothing Suite – Minería Sym/ Carlos Miguel Prieto. Naxos 8.570791. [16:13] Peter Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet – Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.555714. [19:49] Franz Liszt Two Episodes from Lenau’s Faust: No. 2, Dance in the Village Inn (Mephisto Waltz No. 1) – Van Cliburn, p. RCA 63613-2. [10:49]
7:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts:
Riccardo Muti, conductor – Dvorak: Symphony No. 5 in F. Martucci: Notturno. Respighi: Feste Romane. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner with
Henry Fogel: Recordings by pianist Maria Yudina (1899-1970)
Monday 2
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Francisco Tárrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra; Capricho árabe – Miloš Karadaglic, g. DG B0015579-02. [9:27] Richard Strauss Capriccio, Op. 85: Prelude for String Sextet – Vienna Phil/André Previn. DG 437790-2. [13:39]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Frédéric Chopin Mazurkas, Op. 33 – Russell Sherman, p. Avie AV-2262 (2). [10:56] 11:00 Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9 in E-flat, Carnival in Pest – Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta. CBS MK-44926. [13:27] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Edward Elgar String Serenade in e minor, Op. 20 – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 419191-2. [12:18]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Antonio Vivaldi Trio Sonata in C, R. 82 – Avi Avital, mandolin; Mahan Esfahani, hc; Ophira Zakai, l; Patrick Sepec, vc. DG 4794017. [8:56] Georges Bizet Carmen Suite No. 1 – Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski. Naive V-5130. [12:27]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Op. 18 – Yuja Wang, p; Mahler Chamber Orch/ Claudio Abbado. DG B0015338-02. [32:46]
3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestra Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 – Tafelmusik/ Jeanne Lamon. Analekta FL23134. [25:37] Franz Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in B-Flat, H. XV:8 – Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 454098-2 (9). [13:05]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin:
Operettas, week 2
8:00 Ravinia Festival 2021 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Tuesday 3
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in c minor, Op. 6, No. 3 – Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried von der Goltz. Aparté AP-190. [11:00] Samuel Barber Canzonetta – Julia Girdwood, ob; Scottish Chamber Orch/José Serebrier. ASV CDDCA-737. [7:35] Ennio Morricone The Mission: Gabriel’s Oboe – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Roma Sinfonietta/Ennio Morricone. Sony SK-93456. [5:34]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Johann Nepomuk Hummel Trumpet Concerto – Ludwig Güttler, tr; New Bach Collegium Musicum/Max Pommer.
Capriccio 10009. [16:11] 11:00 Frederick Delius Over the Hills and Far Away – English Northern Philharmonia/ David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.553535. [13:32] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Aaron Copland Quiet City – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. DG 419170-2. [10:35]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Op. 59: No. 10, Deep River – Lara Downes, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92207. [5:14] Ernest Chausson Poème, Op. 25 – James Ehnes, v; Quebec Sym/Yoav Talmi. Analekta FL2-3151. [14:54]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, Scottish – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Warner Classics 62769-2 (5). [37:55]
3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestra Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 – Barthold Kuijken, f; La Petite Bande. RCA-DHM 77008-2 (2). [21:38] Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Variations in d on Folies d’Espagne, Wq 118/9 – AnaMarija Markovina, p. Hännsler Classic 98.003-12. [8:29]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin:
Operettas, week 2
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center –
Scriabin: Five Preludes, Op. 16; Taneyev: Piano Quintet in g, Op. 30.
11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Wednesday 4
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Carl Maria von Weber
Incidental music for Gozzi’s Turandot: Overture and March – Philharmonia/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8766. [6:03] Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: Morning Mood – Cyprien Katsaris, p. Teldec 92147-2. [4:04] Gustav Holst The Morning of the Year: Dances – London Sym/David Atherton. Lyrita SRCD.209. [13:45]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Claude Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Elizabeth Hainen, h; IRIS Orch/Michael Stern. Avie AV-2285. [9:53]
11:00 Edmond Dédé
Chicago, Grande Valse à l’Américaine – Hot Springs Music Festival/ Richard Rosenberg. Naxos 8.559038. [8:37]
12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial
Concerts: The Grant Park Music Festival’s Project Inclusion string quartet live from the Cultural Center
1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Johann David Heinichen
Dresden Concerto in G, S. 213 – Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archive 437849-2. [15:31]
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci: Intermezzo – Gothenburg Sym/Neeme Järvi. DG 429494-2. [3:56]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Peter Tchaikovsky String Serenade in C, Op. 48 – Music@Menlo Ensemble. Music@Menlo 2016 Russian Reflections, Vol. 1. [29:49]
3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestra Suite No. 4 in D, BWV 1069 – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AVSA-9890 (2). [24:33] Charles Tomlinson Griffes Piano Sonata – David Allen Wehr, p. Connoiseur CD-4205. [13:17]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
6:30 Live from Pritzker Pavilion: Grant Park Music Festival
2021 – The Grant Park Chorus is conducted by Christopher Bell in a program on the theme From Ireland with Love.
8:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin:
Operettas, week 2
9:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Thursday 5
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto No. 1 in a minor, BWV 1041 – Hilary Hahn, v; Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Kahane. DG B0000986-02. [13:29] Jules Mouquet La Flûte de Pan – Demarre McGill, f; Victor Asuncion, p. WFMT Recording. [15:48]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Emmanuel Chabrier Le Roi malgré lui: Fête polonaise – Vienna Phil/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. DG 447751-2. [7:26] 11:00 Ferde Grofé Mississippi Suite – Boston Pops/ Keith Lockhart. RCA 68786-2. [13:38] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Franz Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C, H. VIIb:1 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; English Chamber Orch/José-Luis García. CBS MK-36674. [23:41]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Pascal & Ami Rogé, p’s. Onyx 4047. [10:53] Richard Wagner Rienzi Overture – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 24224-2. [13:05]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
César Franck Violin Sonata in A – Gil Shaham, v; Gerhard Oppitz, p. DG G2-29729. [28:20]
3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestra Suite in G minor, BWV 1070 – Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archive 415671-2 (2). [17:32] Claude Debussy Suite, Pour le piano – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p. Decca 452022-2 (2). [14:12]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin:
Operettas, week 2
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The Los Angeles Philharmonic in Concert:
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Julia Bullock, soprano; J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano – Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915. Peter Lieberson: Amor mio, si muero y tu no mueres fr Neruda Songs. Mahler: Adagietto fr Symphony No. 5; Symphony No. 1 in D.
11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Friday 6
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Franz Schubert Impromptu in C minor, D. 899, No. 1 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, p. DG 00028948606184. [10:36] Josef Strauss Waltz, Viennese Frescoes, Op. 249 – Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti. Sony 88985477002. [9:15]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: George Frideric Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks – English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archive 453451-2. [17:55]
11:00 Henryk Wieniawski
Souvenir de Moscou, Op. 6 – Alexander Sitkovetsky, v; Olga Sitkovetsky, p. EMI CDC7-57025-2. [8:00] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: The Parker Quartet, from Levin Studio in 2019, with violist Richard O’Neill and cellist Edward Arron.
1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201 – Le Cercle de l’Harmonie/Jérémie Rhorer. Virgin Classics 234868-2. [20:44] John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine – Bournemouth Sym/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.559031. [4:04]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Richard Strauss Don Quixote, Op. 35 – John
In the Spotlight
Carlos Kalmar
Live from the Grant Park Music Festival
Christopher Bell will conduct his Grant Park Chorus in From Ireland with Love on the first of this month’s live programs from Millennium Park. The concert will combine traditional Irish favorites with motets by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and contemporary composers. On the 6th, conductor Carlos Kalmar is joined by violinist Augustin Hadelich in the concerto by Jean Sibelius; also hear Symphony No. 1 by Tchaikovsky, including Winter Dreams. The festival’s Family Night presents favorites by Offenbach and Grieg plus Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, featuring pianists Ashley Kim and Colin Song. The German city of Dettingen was the site of a 1743 battle in which a combined army of Englishmen, Hanoverians, and Austrians defeated a French army. To celebrate, George Frideric Handel was commissioned to write a Te Deum which will be featured on the final weekend of this year’s festival; also enjoy music by Mozart and Gabriela Lena Frank.
All broadcasts are hosted by Dave Schwan. Wednesdays, August 4 and 11 and Fridays, August 6 and 20, 6:30 pm
Photo: Decca Classics
Birgit Nilsson
From the Swedish Royal Opera: Elektra
The title role of Richard Strauss’ Elektra is a demanding one. Using a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, its original source is a tragedy from ancient Greece by Sophocles. Elektra’s mother, Queen Klytemnestra, has killed her husband and put her lover beside her on the throne. Elektra wants revenge for her father’s death but needs the help of her long-lost brother, Orestes, whose unexpected arrival midway through the opera is one of its most dramatic moments. Soprano Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) was an acclaimed specialist in Wagnerian and Straussian roles; this is her 1965 performance at the Swedish Royal Opera in Stockholm.
Saturday, August 7 12:00 pm
Sharp, vc; Charles Pikler, vi; Samuel Magad, v; Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Erato 45625-2. [43:36]
3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Triple Concerto in a minor, BWV 1044 – Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907283/84 (2). [22:25] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No. 4 in C, K. 157 – Jerusalem Quartet. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902076. [16:21]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
6:30 Live from Pritzker Pavilion: Grant Park Music Festival 2021 – The Grant Park
Orchestra conducted by
Carlos Kalmar; Augustin
Hadelich, violin – Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, Winter Dreams.
8:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin:
Operettas, week 2
9:00 The New York Philharmonic
This Week: Alan Gilbert, conductor; Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet – Wagner: Siegfried Idyll. HK Gruber: Aeriel. Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in g. Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod fr Tristan and Isolde.
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel:
Norman Corwin’s Overkill and Megalove, commemorating the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Saturday 7
12:05 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg,
including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions: Ardente String Quartet plays Haydn, Holland and Schubert; Sprezzatura Quartet plays Dvorák and Shostakovich; Quartet Feroce plays Haydn and Ginastera.
12:00 From the Swedish Royal Opera: Richard Strauss’
“Elektra” – Birgit Nilsson (Elektra); Barbro Ericson (Klytemnestra); Berit Lindholm (Chrysothemis); Erik Saeden (Orest); Kage Jehrlander (Aegisth); Swedish Royal Opera Orch/Berislav Klobucar.
2:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503 – English Chamber Orch/Murray Perahia, p. Philips 456922-2 (2). [31:36] Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Introduction: Sunrise – Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan. DG 447441-2. [1:50] Peter Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise – Royal Phil/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Collins 30032. [12:59] Traditional Spiritual, My Lord, What a Morning – Seraphic Fire/Patrick Dupré Quigley. Seraphic Fire Media Steal Away. [4:20] 6:00 William Walton As You Like It film score – London Phil & Cho/Carl Davis. EMI CDC7-47944-2. [14:42] Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen Suite – Alison Balsom, tr; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. EMI 40329-2. [14:05] Felix Mendelssohn String Octet in E-Flat, Op. 20: Scherzo – Emerson String Quartet. DG 4775370 (4). [4:14] Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61: Wedding March & Finale – Branagh, n; McNair, s; Kirchschlager, ms; Ernst Senff Women’s Chorus, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. Sony SK-62826. [11:25] Antony Holborne The Fairy Round – Julian Bream, l. RCA 61587-2. [1:45]
7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari:
Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Sunday 8
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice:
Listener favorites, week 1
7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis Franz Lehár
Violin Concertino in b minor – Robert McDuffie, v; Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80402. [12:57] Richard Strauss DuetConcertino – Larry Combs, cl; David McGill, bn; Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 23913-2. [19:49]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Three Minuets & Allegro, K. 1-4 – Daniel Barenboim, p. EMI CDC7-47384-2. [5:00]
1:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051 – Swedish Chamber Orch/Thomas Dausgaard. Bis BIS-2199. [15:36] Florence Price Piano Concerto in d minor – Karen Walwyn, p; New Black Music Repertory Ensemble/Leslie Dunner. Albany TROY-1295. [18:25]
2:00 Federico Moreno Torroba
Castles of Spain – Christopher Parkening, g. EMI CDC749404-2. [9:10] Bedrich Smetana Vyšehrad (The High Castle) – Chicago Sym/ Rafael Kubelík. Mercury 434379-2. [14:37] Frédéric Chopin Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise in E-Flat, Op. 22 – Charles Richard-Hamelin, p. Analekta AN2-9148. [13:54] Alice Mary Smith Andante for clarinet and orchestra – Angela Malsbury, cl; London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley. Chandos CHAN-10283. [7:07] 3:00 Alberto Ginastera Suite de Danzas Criollas, Op. 15 – Jerusalem Sym/Gisèle Ben-Dor. Naxos 8.570999. [9:19] Enrique Granados Danzas españolas, Op. 37 (Op. 5): Minueto, Oriental, Andaluza, Jota – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000075. [15:24] Franz Schubert Twelve German Dances (Ländler), D. 790 – Ensemble Wien. Sony SK-48386. [12:36] 4:00 Bedrich Smetana Vltava (The Moldau) – Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek. Decca 4833187. [12:08] Alexander Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia – Czech Phil/Karel Ancerl. Supraphon 11-0602-2. [7:21] Sergei Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: Folk Dance; The Street Awakens; Arrival of the Guests; The Young Juliet – Frederic Chiu, p. Harmonia Mundi HCX-3957150. [12:02]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Dmitri
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 – André Previn, p; William Vacchiano, tr; New York Phil/ Leonard Bernstein. Philips 456934-2 (2). [22:06] There’s more Shostakovich on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00. Bedrich Smetana From Bohemia’s Meadows and Forests – Czech Phil/Sir Charles Mackerras. Supraphon SU-3465-2031. [12:07] Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55 – Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN-8723. [16:38]
6:00 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Songs of Travel: The Vagabond; Whither Must I Wander – Bryn Terfel, b-br; Malcolm Martineau, p. DG 445946-2. [7:24] William Walton Violin Concerto in b – Joshua Bell, v; Baltimore Sym/David Zinman. Decca 452851-2. [30:33] Franz Schubert Vocal scene, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965 – Barbara Bonney, s; Sharon Kam, cl; Geoffrey Parsons, p. Teldec 90873-2. [11:36] 7:00 Niccolò Paganini 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: Nos. 23-24 – Itzhak Perlman, v. EMI CDC7-47171-2. [9:06] Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35 – Yuja Wang, p. DG B0014108-02. [19:44]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 – Takács Quartet; Joseph Carver, db. Decca 460034-2. [16:50]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts:
James Gaffigan, conductor; Cynthia Yeh, percussion – Avner Dorman: Eternal Rhythm; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in c. We’ll also hear Ravel’s Bolero conducted by Sir Georg Solti.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner
with Henry Fogel:
Vladimir Horowitz’s 1948 Carnegie Hall recital.
Monday 9
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Franz Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata No. 54 in G, H. XVI:40 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 416365-2. [12:14] Antonio Salieri Sinfonia Veneziana in D, La scuola de’ gelosi – London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN-9877. [9:57] Jacques Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle – Gothenburg Sym/Neeme Järvi. DG 429494-2. [4:33]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Johann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 4 in E-flat, BWV 815 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. Decca 4832150. [11:59]
11:00 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 – Gothenburg Sym/Neeme Järvi. DG 423604-2 (2). [15:43] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 2 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDFB5-69358-2 (2). [17:50]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Prelude, Dance of the Persian Slave Girls – Berlin Phil/ Claudio Abbado. Sony SK-62034. [13:27] Georg Philipp Telemann TwoTrumpet Concerto in E-Flat – H Hardenberger & M Laird, tr’s; St. Martin’s Academy/Iona Brown. Philips 420954-2. [11:29]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio in D, Op. 70/1, Ghost – Julian Rachlin, v; Mischa Maisky, vc; Martha Argerich, p. DG 4795096. [26:03] 3:00 Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, Italian – Philharmonia/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 410862-2. [32:21]
George Frideric Handel
Violin Sonata in g minor, HWV 368 – Rachel Barton Pine, v; David Schrader, hc; John Mark Rozendaal, vc. Cedille CDR-90000032. [8:30]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with
Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).
8:00 Ravinia Festival 2021
Tuesday 10
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Joaquín Rodrigo Sonata a la española – Celil Refik Kaya, g. Naxos 8.574004. [8:03] Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole – Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.572887. [15:03]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Franz Schubert Quartet No. 12 in c minor, D. 703, Quartettsatz – Juilliard String Quartet. CBS MP-39553. [7:45] 11:00 Carl Nielsen Helios Overture, Op. 17 – Chicago Sym/Jean Martinon. RCA 29255-2. [12:18] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus:
Jacques Offenbach
Le Voyage dans la Lune Overture – Gulbenkian Orch/Michel Swierczewski. Nimbus NI-5303. [7:44]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Sergei Rachmaninoff
Études-tableaux, Op. 39: No. 5 in E-flat minor – Sergei Babayan, p. DG 4839181. [5:30] Johann Joachim Quantz Two-Flute Concerto in G – Jed Wentz & Marion Moonen, f’s; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archive 447644-2. [12:27]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Howard Hanson Symphony No. 2, Romantic – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.559701. [28:19] 3:00 Felix Mendelssohn String Octet in E-Flat, Op. 20 – St. Martin’s Academy Chamber Ensemble. Chandos CHAN-8790. [30:56] William Byrd The Fitzwilliam Suite – Canadian Brass. CBS MK-45792. [11:10]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with
Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Mozart:
String Quintet, K. 174; Quintet for Piano & Winds, K. 452.
11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Wednesday 11
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Dora Pejacevic Piano Trio in C, Op. 29: II. Scherzo, Allegro – trioW. Naxos 8.551438. [5:57] Camille Saint-Saëns Havanaise, Op. 83 – Itzhak Perlman, v; New York Phil/Zubin Mehta. DG 423063-2. [9:37] We have Carnival of the Animals live from Grant Park tonight at 6:30 pm. Agustín Barrios Mangoré Danzas Paraguayas Nos. 1-3 – David Russell, g. Telarc CD-80373. [5:15]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Gabriel Fauré Dolly Suite, Op. 56 – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1004. [16:14] 11:00 Richard Wagner Das Rheingold: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.573839. [7:30]
12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra He Memorial
Concerts: Flutist Gabriela Vargas and pianist KuangHao Huang live from the Cultural Center.
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Dmitri Shostakovich Festive Overture, Op. 96 – Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0013458-02. [5:59] Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in F, Op. 6, No. 12 – English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock. Archive 423626-2 (2). [10:32]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Jean
Sibelius Symphony No. 1 in e, Op. 39 – Lahti Sym/Osmo Vänskä. Bis CD-861. [35:04] 3:00 Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in c minor, Op. 66 – Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 432125-2. [27:44] Gustav Holst St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 – St. Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood. Decca 440376-2. [12:23]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
6:30 Live from Pritzker Pavilion: Grant Park Music Festival 2021 – The Grant Park
Orchestra conducted by
Norman Huynh; Ashley
Kim & Colin Song, pianos – Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld Overture. Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals. Grieg: Suite fr Peer Gynt.
8:00 Exploring Music with
Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).
9:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto Polonoise in B-Flat – Holland Baroque. Pentatone PTC-5186878. [9:04] Germaine Tailleferre Harp Concertino – Gillian Benet, h; Women’s Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Koch 3-7169-2. [16:04]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Sergei Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 – Melos Ensemble. EMI CDFB5-72646-2 (2). [8:30]
11:00 George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite No. 1 in F – English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock. DG B0005828-02 (2). [14:55] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Camille Saint-Saëns Le Rouet d’Omphale (Omphale’s Spinning Wheel), Op. 31 – Malmö Sym/Marc Soustrot. Naxos 8.573139. [8:19]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Claude Debussy Violin Sonata in g minor – Augustin Hadelich, v; Robert Kulek, p. Avie AV2216. [13:14] Samuel Barber The School for Scandal Overture, Op. 5 – Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.559024. [8:37]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Franz Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 in A – Barry Douglas, p; London Sym/Jun’ichi Hirokami. RCA 7916-2. [21:02] 3:00 Felix Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Op. 19 – Daniel Barenboim, p. DG 423931-2 (2). [14:46] Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, Spring – Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; Lambert Orkis, p. DG 457619-2 (4). [25:22]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with
Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The Los Angeles Philharmonic in Concert:
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Seong-Jin Cho, piano – Thomas Ades: Dawn; Inferno (world-premiere performance, LA Philharmonic commission). Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in c.
11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Friday 13
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Montreal Sym/Kent Nagano. Decca 4830396. [10:42] Modest Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain – London Sym/ Claudio Abbado. RCA 613542. [11:52] Giuseppe Tartini Violin Sonata in G, Devil’s Trill: Finale – Rachel Barton Pine, v; David Schrader, hc. Cedille CDR-90000041. [5:25]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite – Vienna Phil/André Previn. DG 437790-2. [21:36] 11:00 Florence Price Dances in the Canebrakes – Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen. Cedille CDR-90000185. [9:28]
12:00 Impromptu Encore:
Pianist Beatrice Rana.
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat Suite
In the Spotlight
Photo: Gregor Hohenberg; Sony Music Entertainment
Pretty Yende
From the Paris Opera: Manon
A beautiful young girl runs away from her convent with a dashing young nobleman to live la dolce vita in Paris – an affair that does not run smoothly. Both Jules Massenet and Giacomo Puccini took inspiration from the 18th-century novel L’Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by l’Abbe Prevost, and this performance from early 2020 is of Massenet’s version. It features South African-born soprano Pretty Yende in the title role with Benjamin Bernheim as her cavalier, Ludovic Tezier as her opportunistic brother, and Roberto Tagliavini as Des Grieux’s conservative father. Dan Ettinger conducts the Paris Opera Chorus and Orchestra.
Saturday, August 14 12:00 pm
No. 1 – Granada Orch/ Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901606. [15:29]
Johann Sebastian Bach
Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 1 in G, BWV 1027 – Steven Isserlis, vc; Richard Egarr, hc. Hyperion CDA-68045. [12:31]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Maurice Ravel Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) – Berlin Phil/Pierre Boulez. DG 439859-2. [28:03]
3:00 Felix Mendelssohn
String Symphony No. 12 in g – Hanover Band/Roy Goodman. RCA 68069-2 (3). [22:52] Michael Praetorius Terpsichore: Five Dances – Collegium Terpsichore/ Fritz Neumeyer. Boston Skyline BSD-118. [12:15]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with
Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).
8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Alan Gilbert,
conductor; Itzhak Perlman, violin – Strauss: Don Juan. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e. Henri Dutilleux: Metaboles. Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Weber.
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel:
Choreographer Agnes de Mille
Saturday 14
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg,
including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions: Isabel Chen, 18, violin. Bach: Partita No. 2 Allemande; Beethoven: Violin Sonata Op. 30/2, 1st mvt; Kreisler: La Gitana; Montgomery: Rhapsody No. 1; Sibelius: Violin Concerto 1st mvt. With Milana Pavchinskaya, piano.
12:00 From the Paris Opera:
Massenet’s “Manon” – Pretty Yende (Manon); Benjamin Bernheim (Chevalier des Grieux); Ludovic Tezier (Lescaut); Pierre Doyen (de Bretigny); Roberto Tagliavini (Comte des Grieux); Paris Opera Cho & Orch/Dan Ettinger.
3:05 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p; Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez. DG B0014764-02. [22:16] Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande Suite – Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 471332-2. [29:50] 6:00 Heitor Villa-Lobos Five Preludes for Guitar: No. 3 in a (Andante) – John Williams, g. Sony SBK-62425. [8:15] Xavier Montsalvatge Poema concertante – Rachel Barton Pine, v; NDR Radio Phil/Celso Antunes. Hänssler Classic 98.642. [12:32] Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand – Yuja Wang, p; Zürich Tonhalle Orch/Lionel Bringuier. DG B0023931-02. [17:28] John Williams Guitar Encores Air with variations, The Harmonious Blacksmith; Streets of London – CBS MK-42119. [8:55]
7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari:
Sephardic Music on Both Sides of the Atlantic
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Sunday 15
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice:
Listener favorites, week 2
7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis Heitor Villa-
Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria-Cantilena – Daniel Barenboim, p, Emmanuel Pahud, f, Alex Klein, ob, Larry Combs, cl. Teldec 21482-2. [5:21] Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068 – Ensemble Sonnerie/Monica Huggett. Avie AV-2171. [17:20] Samuel Coleridge-Taylor African Suite, Op. 35 – Rochelle Sennet, p. Albany TROY1869/71 (3). [19:23] 1:00 Alexander Borodin Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80657. [11:20] Niccolò Paganini Sonata concertata – Gil Shaham, v; Göran Söllscher, g. DG 437837-2. [14:14] Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43 – Lang Lang, p; Maryinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev. DG B0003902-02. [24:02] 2:00 Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E-Flat, Op. 33, No. 2, Joke – Spektral Quartet. Sono Luminus DSL-92198. [16:17] Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s
Merry Pranks, Op. 28 – Berlin Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0018913-02. [15:51] 3:00 Frédéric Chopin Polonaisefantaisie in A-Flat, Op. 61 – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 413795-2. [13:05] Chihara, Paul Ellington Fantasy – Lark Quartet. Bridge 9488. [11:20] Conni Ellisor Blackberry Winter – Stephen Seifert, dulcimer; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill. Warner Classics 46739-2. [16:51] 4:00 Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances: Book Four (Nos. 1721) – London Phil/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.557429. [12:01] Leó Weiner Divertimento No. 1 on Old Hungarian Dances, Op. 20 – Budapest Strings/ Károly Botvay. Capriccio 10528. [10:50] Various Dances in the Canebrakes: No. 3, Silk Hat and Walking Cane; If the Silver Bird Could Speak – William Chapman Nyaho, p. MSR Classics MS-1708. [6:00]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14a – San Francisco Sym/ Michael Tilson Thomas. RCA 68930-2. [56:03] MTT is the guest conductor for our Chicago Symphony broadcast concert tonight at 8:00. 6:00 Antonin Dvorák Rusalka: Song to the Moon – Leontyne Price, s; New Philharmonia/ Nello Santi. RCA 62596-2. [6:15] Giuseppe Verdi I Vespri Siciliani: Four Seasons Ballet, Winter & Spring – Bournemouth Sym/ José Serebrier. Naxos 8.572818-19 (2). [14:21] Gustave Charpentier Louise: Depuis le jour – Renée Fleming, s; English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate. Decca 458858-2. [6:00] Léo Délibes Lakmé: Flower duet – Renée Fleming, s; Susan Graham, ms; Philharmonia/Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Decca B0019033-02. [3:50]
7:00 Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat, Op. 127 – Tokyo String Quartet. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807481.83 (3). [35:29] Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings (from Op. 11) – Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein. DG 439521-2. [10:01]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Michael Tilson Thomas,
conductor; Jeremy Denk, piano – Mahler: Blumine. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3. Brahms-Schoenberg: Piano Quartet. We’ll also hear Mozart’s Symphony No. 34 conducted by Rafael Kubelik.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner with
Henry Fogel: Recordings by the Armenian baritone Pavel Lisitsian (1911-2004).
Monday 16
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Aaron Copland Prairie Journal (Music for Radio) – St. Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 61699-2. [11:33] Charles Tomlinson Griffes Four Roman Sketches, Op. 7: Nightfall; The Fountain of the Acqua Paola – James Tocco, p. Gasparo GSCD-231. [9:58] Maurice Ravel Tzigane – Itzhak Perlman, v; Orch de Paris/Jean Martinon. EMI CDM7-69568-2. [9:53] Bill McGlaughlin’s Exploring Music topic this week is Gitana.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 in C, Op. 72b – Saito Kinen Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa. Decca 4851110. [14:24] 11:00 Virgil Thomson At the Beach – Gerard Schwarz, cornet; William Bolcom, p. Nonesuch 79157-2. [4:35] Clive Richardson Beachcomber – Dallas Wind Sym/Frederick Fennell. Reference RR-62. [3:48] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Peter Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 – Gautier Capuçon, vc; Mariinsky Theatre Orch/ Valery Gergiev. Virgin Classics 694486. [19:23]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach Andante con tenerezza – Mikhail Pletnev, p. DG 459614-2. [6:43] Jacques Ibert Divertissement – C/O Chamber Orch. Bis 2499. [15:41]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Samuel Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14 – Hilary Hahn, v; St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff. Sony SK-89029. [23:05] 3:00 Clara Schumann Piano Trio in g minor, Op. 17 – Veronica Jochum, p; Colin Carr, vc; Joseph Silverstein, v. Pro Arte CDD-395. [27:54] Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Toccata No. 1 in f-sharp minor, BWV 910 – Andrew Rangell, p. Steinway 30024. [13:16]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill
McGlaughlin: Gitana
8:00 Ravinia Festival 2021 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Carl Maria von Weber Der Freischuetz Overture – Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer. EMI CDM7-63917-2. [9:37] Paul Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Weber: Scherzo (Turandot); Finale (Marcia) – Philadelphia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch. EMI CDC5-55230-2. [13:09]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Charles Gounod Faust: Ballet music – St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. Philips 462125-2. [17:07] 11:00 Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade in G – Cremona Quartet. Avie AV-2436. [6:50] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Franz Liszt Mazeppa – Vienna Phil/ Christoph Eschenbach. Sony 88843070972. [15:26]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon • George Frideric Handel
Berenice, Overture, Minuet, & Gigue – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. Oiseau 4105532. [7:08] Franz Joseph Haydn Piano Concerto in F, H. XVIII:3 – Marc-André Hamelin, p; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie. Hyperion CDA-67925. [20:14]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Edward Elgar Enigma Variations, Op. 36 – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 417719-2. [28:51] 3:00 Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-Flat – Ébène Quartet. Virgin Classics 464546-2. [20:31] Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 9 in E, Op. 14/1 – John Lill, p. ASV CDQS-6058. [14:17]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill
McGlaughlin: Gitana
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Schubert:
Fantasy in C, D. 934; Mendelssohn: String Quartet in f, Op. 80.
11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Wednesday 18
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Clavier Concerto No. 7 in g minor, BWV 1058 – Simone Dinnerstein, p; A Far Cry Chamber Orch. Orange Mountain Music 0127. [13:14] Heitor Villa-Lobos Concerto for Guitar & Small Orchestra – Manuel Barrueco, g; São Paulo Sym/Giancarlo Guerrero. Naxos 8.574018. [17:24]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Henryk Wieniawski Légende, Op. 17 – Gil Shaham, v; London Sym/Lawrence Foster. DG 431815-2. [7:33] 11:00 Antonio Estévez Mediodía en el Llano – Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0011340-02. [8:01]
12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial
Concerts: Cellist Ben Solomonow and pianist Christopher Goodpasture live from the Cultural Center.
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon Septimi Toni; Sonata Pian’ e Forte – Canadian Brass. Opening Day ODR-7380. [8:06] Dag Wirén String Serenade, Op. 11 – Stockholm Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen. Bis CD-285. [14:03]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551, Jupiter – English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Soli Deo Gloria SDG-711. [35:56] 3:00 Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 1 in D – Er-Gene Kahng, violin; Janacek Phil/ Ryan Cockerham. Albany TROY-1706. [24:07] Robert Schumann Papillons, Op. 2 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. Decca 414474-2. [15:17]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill
McGlaughlin: Gitana
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Thursday 19
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Franz Schubert Die Zwillingsbrüder Overture – Stuttgart Radio Sym/Paul Angerer. Pantheon D-07116. [4:12] Ralph Vaughan Williams The Wasps: March; Entr’acte; Ballet & Final Tableau – London Phil/Sir Adrian Boult. EMI CDC7-47216-2. [12:59] Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21 – Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. Sony SK-62826. [11:45]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: George Gershwin
Second Rhapsody (1931 original version) – Stewart Goodyear, p; Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80112. [15:11]
11:00 Federico Moreno Torroba
Aires de la Mancha – Pepe Romero, g. Philips 442150-2. [8:36] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Gioachino Rossini William Tell Overture – Philharmonia/ Riccardo Muti. EMI CDC7-47118-2. [11:27]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Concerto in E, BWV 1042 – Bavarian Radio Sym Chamber Orch/Lisa Batiashvili, v. DG 4792479. [15:49] Cécile Chaminade Valse carnavalesque, Op. 73 – Bengt Forsberg & Peter Jablonski, p’s. DG 471331-2. [6:08]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Claude Debussy La Mer – New York Phil/ Jaap van Zweden. Decca B0029690-02. [25:11] 3:00 Louise Farrenc Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 39 – Karin Hendel, v; Ewa Warykiewicz, p. Zuk Records 324. [29:50]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 6 in D, K. 239, Serenata notturna – I Musici. Philips 412120-2. [11:17]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill
McGlaughlin: Gitana
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The Los Angeles Philharmonic in Concert –
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Pollux (world-premiere performance, LA Philharmonic commission, Gustavo Dudamel conducting). Stravinsky: Funeral Song; Agon; The Rite of Spring (Salonen conducting).
11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Friday 20
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (Dance in the Village Inn) – La Pieta`/Angèle Dubeau, v. Analekta AN28718. [8:53] Frédéric Chopin Mazurkas, Op. 17 – Garrick Ohlsson, p. Arabesque Z-6730-2 (2). [12:55] Luigi Boccherini Introduction and Fandango – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3144. [5:57]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger: Prelude to Act 1 – Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel. Sony 88883712052. [11:51] 11:00 Francis Poulenc Suite française – London Wind Orch/Denis Wick. ASV CDWHL-2067. [12:20]
12:00 Impromptu Encore 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Two-Piano Concerto in E-Flat, K. 365 – Alfred Brendel & Imogen Cooper, p’s; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. Philips 446921-2 (5). [24:57] Gabriel Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 – King’s College Cho/ Stephen Cleobury; Tom Etheridge, o. King’s College Cambridge KGS-0005. [5:34]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Nicolai Rimsky-
Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35 – Chicago Sym/ Seiji Ozawa; Victor Aitay, v. EMI 47617-2. [43:11] 3:00 Rebecca Clarke Viola Sonata – Patricia McCarty, vi; Virginia Eskin, p. Northeastern NR-212. [24:45] Frederick Delius Two Pieces for small orchestra – Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. EMI CDC7-47610-2. [12:20]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
6:30 Live from Pritzker Pavilion: Grant Park Music Festival 2021 – The Grant Park Chorus & Orchestra
conducted by Carlos
Kalmar; Vadim Gluzman,
violin – Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegia Andina. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G. Handel: Dettingen Te Deum.
8:00 Exploring Music with Bill
McGlaughlin: Gitana
9:00 The New York Philharmonic
This Week: Alan Gilbert, conductor; Lisa Batiashvili, violin – Magnus Lindberg: Arena. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d. Brahms: Symphony No. 2.
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel:
This Train, part 1
Saturday 21
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg,
including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions: Pre-college chamber ensembles.
12:00 From the Opera National de Bordeaux: “The Demon”
by Anton Rubinstein – Nicolas Cavallier (Demon); Ray Chenez (Angel); Alexandros Stavrakakis (Prince Gudal); Alexey Dolgov (Prince Sinodal); Evgenia Muraveva (Tamara); Bordeaux-Aquitaine National Orch, Bordeaux & Limoges Opera Cho/Paul Daniel.
2:15 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K. 271, Jeunehomme – Alfred Brendel, p; Vienna Phil/Sir Charles Mackerras. Decca 4782116 (2). [34:30] Giacomo Puccini La Bohème: Act 1 finale from Che gelida manina – Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, et al; Berlin Phil/ Herbert von Karajan. Decca 421049-2 (2). [14:50] 6:00 Gabriel Fauré Masques et Bergamasques – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 4491862. [14:27] Jean-Philippe Rameau Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Music from Naïs, Castor et Pollux, Les Talens lyriques, Dardanus – Les Musiciens du Louvre/ Marc Minkowski. Archive B0004478-02. [12:50] Jacques Offenbach Gaîté Parisienne: Excerpts – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc 80294. [11:05]
Robert Nathaniel Dett
In the Bottoms: Morning; Juba – Natalie Hinderas, p. CRI 629 (2). [7:53]
7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari:
Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Sunday 22
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice:
Sacred music for voices, organ, and brass.
7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis George
Gershwin Porgy and Bess Suite – Caroline Goulding, v; Christopher O’Riley, p. Telarc CD-80744. [17:05] Johann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 6 in E, BWV 817 – Murray Perahia, p. DG 4796565 (2). [14:59] John Rutter Suite Antique – Andrew Nicholson, f; John Birch, hc; Royal Phil Strings/John Rutter. Decca B0001821-02. [17:45]
1:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat, K. 207 – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner. Avie AV-2317 (2). [20:34] Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier: First Anton Rubinstein
This rarity from the Russian repertory is staged by the Opera National de Bordeaux. Noted pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein wrote The Demon in 1871, based on a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, a poet-novelistpainter and pioneer of the Romantic literary movement in Russia. The Demon (Nicolas Cavallier) falls in love with a mortal woman, Tamara (Evgenia Muraveva), whose lover is killed on his way to their wedding. Tamara is tempted by the Demon but repelled at the same time; she enters a convent but finds herself unable to resist his continued presence in her life. Paul Daniel conducts the Bordeaux operahouse chorus and the Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine.
Saturday, August 21 12:00 pm
waltz sequence – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8834. [12:03] Frédéric Chopin Waltzes, Op. 64 – Maria João Pires, p. DG 4777483 (2). [8:43] 2:00 Douglas Lilburn Festival Overture – New Zealand Sym/ James Judd. Naxos 8.557697. [8:20] Claude Debussy Three Nocturnes: Nuages; Fetes – Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, p. Berto Records. [12:49] Howard Hanson Lux Aeterna, Op. 24 – Ilkka Talvi, v; Susan Gulkis, vi; Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos 3160. [16:48] Edward Elgar Lux Aeterna (after Nimrod fr Op. 36) – Voces8. Decca B0022601-02. [3:51] 3:00 Antonio Vivaldi Two-Guitar Concerto in G, R. 532 – Pepe & Celín Romero, g’s;
Photo: Aidan Kranz
Stephen Burns
New Music Chicago: 2021 Ear Taxi Festival Preview
New Music Chicago will present the 2021 Ear Taxi Festival in September and October at DePaul University, the University of Chicago, Constellation Chicago, and other venues. The theme of the event is Hear Chicago: exploring the vast variety of styles and traditions of Chicago’s musical identity in this third decade of the 21st century. This preview, recorded in July, will feature the Fulcrum Point New Music Ensemble, the Fifth Wave Collective, and pianist Clare Longendyke.
Tuesday, August 24 8:00 pm
San Antonio Sym/Victor Alessandro. Decca 4780192 (2). [10:59] Camille SaintSaëns La Muse et le Poète, Op. 132 – Renaud Capuçon, v; Gautier Capuçon, vc; Radio France Phil/Lionel Bringuier. Erato 934134-2. [16:36] Darius Milhaud La Cheminée du roi René, Op. 205 – Reykjavik Wind Quintet. Chandos CHAN-9362. [12:21] 4:00 Franz Joseph Haydn Quartet in G, Op. 64, No. 4 – Angeles String Quartet. Philips 464650-2 (21). [16:24] George Frideric Handel Coronation Anthem, Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened – Westminster Abbey Choir, English Concert/ Simon Preston. Archive 410030-2. [8:52] Josef Myslivecek Concertino in E-Flat – Concerto Cologne. Archive 4776418. [14:45]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Ludwig van
Beethoven Egmont Overture – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink. Philips 442073-2 (5). [8:54] Anton von Webern Im Sommerwind – Chicago Sym/Bernard Haitink. CSO ReSound CSOR-9011002. [15:03] Haitink conducts music by Weber, Webern, Beethoven, and Brahms on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00. Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto in g minor, R. 315, The Four Seasons: Summer – Portland Baroque Orch/Monica Huggett, v. Portland Baroque Orchestra 2008. [11:29] Astor Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires: Summer; Autumn; Winter – Cavatina Duo. Bridge 9330. [12:40] 6:00 Hector Berlioz Harold in Italy, Op. 16 – Lise Berthaud, vi; Lyon National Orch/ Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.573297. [42:11] 7:00 Richard Strauss Wind Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7 – Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Philips 438748-2 (2). [8:50] César Franck Violin Sonata in A – James Galway, f; Martha Argerich, p. RCA 61615-2. [26:28]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts:
Bernard Haitink, conductor – Weber: Der Freischuetz Overture. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7. Webern: Passacaglia. Brahms: Symphony No. 2.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner
with Henry Fogel: Kiril Kondrashin conducts the world premieres of two Shostakovich symphonies.
Monday 23
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Oboe Concerto in a minor – Maurice Bourgue, ob; English String Orch/William Boughton. Nimbus NI-1754 (4). [16:41] Lita Grier Flute Concertino, Renascence – Mary Stolper, f; Czech National Sym/ Paul Freeman. Cedille CDR-90000046. [10:55]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Johann Christian Bach Sinfonia Concertante – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; St. Paul Chamber Orch/Pinchas Zukerman, v. CBS MK-39964. [15:35] 11:00 Hugo Alfvén Swedish Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 24, Uppsala Rhapsody – Royal Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi. Bis CD-725. [9:52] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Franz Schubert German Dances (16), D. 783 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 446923-2 (5). [10:42]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Giovanni Gabrieli Sonata No. 19 – Gabrieli Players/Paul McCreesh. Archive 449180-2. [5:10] Franz Joseph Haydn Quartet in D, Op. 64, No. 5, Lark – Festetics String Quartet. Harmonia Mundi QUI-903040/41 (2). [20:51]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Suite – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini. Sony SK-45935. [24:10]
3:00 Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture (Suite) in C, Hamburger Ebb’ und Flut (Wassermusik) – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AVSA-9914 (2). [22:16] Antonio Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in C, R. 425 – Christopher Parkening, g; St. Martin’s Academy/Iona Brown. EMI CDC5-55052-2. [13:19]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Ravinia Festival 2021 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Tuesday 24
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Celebration – Indianapolis Sym/John Nelson. New World NW-336-2. [8:15] Claude Debussy Préludes, Book 2: La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Ondine; Feux d’artifice – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 4798490. [10:24] Hector Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 – Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.573297. [8:37]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel Overture – Vienna Phil/Christoph Eschenbach. Sony Classical 88985425932. [8:50] 11:00 Armand Amar Planet Ocean Suite – La Pietà/ Angèle Dubeau. Analekta AN2-8749. [7:27] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin and Oboe Concerto in d minor, BWV 1060 – Andrey Rubtsov, ob; St. Martin’s Academy/Julia Fischer, v. Decca B0012490-02. [14:06]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Claude Debussy Waltz, La plus que lente – John Leach, cimbalom; ORTF National Orch/Jean Martinon. EMI CDFB5-72673-2 (2). [5:56] Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F, Op. 10/2 – Jonathan Biss, p. JB Recordings MM-15029. [15:56]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 – Boston Sym/Andris Nelsons. BSO Classics 1701/03. [41:19] 3:00 Hans Huber Serenade No. 1 in E, Op. 86, Summer Nights – Stuttgart Phil/ Jörg-Peter Weigle. Sterling CDS-1027-2. [19:47] Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 70 in D – Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati. Decca 4781221 (33). [15:13]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Ear Taxi Festival 2021:
Preview – Presented by New Music Chicago, the festival will take place from mid-September to early October. Tonight’s preview performance was recorded last week in Nichols Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago.
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Bruce
Adolphe: Are There Not A Thousand Forms of Sorrow (CMSLC commission); Dvorak: String Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97, American.
11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Wednesday 25
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 George Frideric Handel
Concerto a due cori No. 3 in F – Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Harmonia Mundi HMM-905272. [17:35] Tomaso Albinoni Adagio in g minor – Sharon Isbin, g; Zürich Chamber Orch/ Howard Griffiths. Warner Classics 45312-2. [7:51]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Leonard Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances – Lucerne Sym/ James Gaffigan. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902611. [22:14] 11:00 Franz Liszt Années de pèlerinage: 3rd Year, Rome: Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este – André Watts, p. EMI CDM7-64599-2. [7:48]
12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra He Memorial
Concerts: Pianist Agustin Muriago live from the Cultural Center.
1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orpheus and Eurydice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits – Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood. Oiseau 410553-2. [7:35] Jacques
Offenbach Die Rheinnixen: Overture, Ballet and Grande Valse – Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski. Archive 4776403. [14:51]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a – London Sym/André Previn. EMI 64736-2. [16:19] 3:00 Enrique Granados Piano Trio, Op. 50 – Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 446684-2. [25:17] Maurice Ravel Boléro – London Sym/Claudio Abbado. DG 439512-2. [14:22]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Thursday 26
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Carl Nielsen Little Suite, Op. 1 – ASMIF Strings/ Sir Neville Marriner. Argo 417132-2. [13:48] Kurt Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music) – Chicago Pro Musica. Reference RR-29. [20:51]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Alexander Glazunov The Seasons, Op. 67: Summer – Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier. Warner Classics 61434-2. [11:15] 11:00 William Grant Still Danzas de Panama – Oregon String Quartet. Koch 7546-2. [12:36] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Paul Dukas La Péri – RTÉ National Sym/Jean-Luc Tingaud. Naxos 8.573296. [17:55]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Edvard Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 – Leif Ove Andsnes, p. Virgin Classics 59300-2. [13:59] George Frideric Handel Teseo Overture – Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan. Philharmonia Baroque PBP-07. [6:15]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Antonin Dvorák String Serenade in E, Op. 22 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/ Gerard Schwarz. Delos D/CD-3011. [27:56] 3:00 Alberto Ginastera Estancia ballet suite – Granada City Orch/Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901808. [13:38] Joseph Boudin de Boismortier Fragments melodiques – Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet. Naxos 8.554456. [23:27]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The Los Angeles Philharmonic in Concert:
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Carolin Widmann, violin – Hindemith: Ragtime on a Bach Theme. Weill: Violin Concerto. Bach-Schoenberg: Two chorale-preludes. Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler.
11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Friday 27
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in a, K. 511 – Alfred Brendel, p. Vanguard OVC-4025. [11:22] Charles Tomlinson Griffes Poem – Mary Stolper, f; Czech National Sym/Paul Freeman. Cedille CDR-90000046. [10:14] George Walker Lyric for Strings – London Sym/Paul Freeman. Sony 19075862152 (10). [5:52]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Alexander Borodin Prince Igor Overture – Royal Liverpool Phil/Sir Charles Mackerras. Virgin Classics 61135-2. [10:43] 11:00 Ferde Grofé Hudson River Suite – Bournemouth Sym/William Stromberg. Naxos 8.559017. [18:38]
12:00 Impromptu Encore 1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Aaron Copland The Red Pony Suite – St. Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 61699-2. [23:15] Antonio Vivaldi Trio Sonata in C, R. 82 – Avi Avital, mandolin; Mahan Esfahani, hc; Ophira Zakai, l; Patrick Sepec, vc. DG 4794017. [8:56]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:
Peter Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Suite – Royal Phil/Sir Charles Mackerras. Telarc CD-80151. [24:42] 3:00 Julian Orbón Concerto Grosso for String Quartet and Orchestra – Cuarteto Latinoamericano; Simón Bolívar Sym/Eduardo Mata. Dorian DOR-90178. [26:23] Yvar Mikhashoff Portrait of Madama Butterfly (after Puccini) – JeanYves Thibaudet, p. Decca B0008431-02. [12:19]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week – Mozart:
Violin Concertos 3, 1, and 5, Turkish (Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin & conductor); Wolfgang Rihm: Lichtes Spiel.
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel:
This Train, part 2
Saturday 28
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg,
including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions: Katharine Nelson, 18, violin. Music by Brahms, Bach, Dvorák, Ysaÿe, Mozart, Albéniz, and Kreisler. With Milana Pavchinskaya, piano.
12:00 Frrom the Opera du Capitole de Toulouse: Wagner’s
“Parsifal” – Nikolai Schukoff (Parsifal); Sophie Koch (Kundry); Matthias Goerne (Amfortas); Peter Rose (Gurnemanz); Pierre-Yves Pruvot (Klingsor); Julien Veronese (Titurel); Capitole de Toulouse National Cho & Orch/Frank Beermann. 4:15 Jules Massenet La Vierge: The Last Sleep of the Virgin – Minnesota Orch/ Eiji Oue. Reference RR-99. [4:30] Massenet Thaïs: Méditation – Joshua Bell, v; Royal Phil/Andrew Litton. Decca 433519-2. [5:12]
4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 – Jaime Martin, f; Kenneth Sillito, v; St. Martin’s Academy/Murray Perahia, p. Sony 82429-2 (3). [21:13] Various Frog Galliard; Rossignol; It Fell on A Summer’s Day – Julian Bream Consort. RCA 61589-2. [5:40] Arthur Honegger Pastorale d’été – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-60695. [8:03] Emmanuel Chabrier Suite pastorale – Vienna Phil/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. DG 447751-2. [18:48] 6:00 Franz Krommer Oboe Concerto No. 1 in F, Op. 37 – Alex Klein, ob; Czech National Sym/Paul Freeman. Cedille CDR-90000045. [21:54]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219, Turkish – Julia Fischer, v; Netherlands Chamber Orch/Yakov Kreizberg. Pentatone PTC-5186453 (2). [29:50] Mozart The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492: Voi che sapete – Amadeus Ensemble/Julius Rudel. Musicmasters 60117. [2:18]
7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari:
Latin-American songs
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Sunday 29
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice: From the show’s archives, founder and first host Richard Gladwell samples settings of the Gloria portion of the Latin Mass.
7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis George Frideric
Handel Organ Concerto
In the Spotlight
Nikolai Schukoff
Richard Wagner’s Parsifal premiered in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1882, and for many years was performed nowhere else, on the composer’s orders. The plot is based on medieval legends of the Holy Grail, a sacred artifact that is supposed to have been guarded by a group of specially consecrated knights. In the opera, the knights have been corrupted by sin and can be redeemed and healed only by a “pure fool,” which is what the name Parsifal means. At the opera house of Toulouse, France, tenor Nikolai Schukoff portrays Parsifal and mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch sings the role of Kundry, a mysterious woman who both serves and mocks the Grail knights.
Saturday, August 28 12:00 pm
Photo: Artist’s website
Angela Yoffe and Vadim Gluzman
From the North Shore Chamber Music Festival
Happening each June at the Village Presbyterian Church of Northbrook, the North Shore Chamber Music Festival was founded by violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Angela Yoffe. As the fest looks forward to presenting its second season of Onstage/Offstage concerts at PianoForte Chicago in September, WFMT is pleased to air one of the concerts from this summer, on the theme Stars of Tomorrow: Romance from France. Gluzman and Yoffe were joined by a number of rising young performers for a program headlined by the Piano Quintet of Cesar Franck (1822-1890).
Tuesday, August 31 8:00 pm
in d minor, Op. 7, No. 4 – Academy of Ancient Music/ Richard Egarr, o. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807447.48 (2). [14:55] Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen Suite – New York Kammermusiker/Ilona Pederson. Dorian DOR-90189. [13:31] Ottorino Respighi The Birds – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 437533-2. [18:14] 1:00 Charles Gounod Romeo and Juliet: Orchestral Suite – Toulouse Capitole Orch/ Michel Plasson. EMI 66427-2. [12:54] Maurice Ravel Sonate posthume – Duo Gazzana. ECM 2556. [13:48] Georg Philipp Telemann Overture (Suite) in G, Bourlesque de Quixotte – Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz. RCA-DHM 77321-2. [20:27]
2:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F, K. 370 – Ray Still, ob; Itzhak Perlman, v; Pinchas Zukerman, vi; Lynn Harrell, vc. EMI ZDMD764617-2 (4). [15:44] Richard Strauss Macbeth, Op. 23 – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE-3094. [19:10] Jean Françaix L’Horloge de Flore (The Flower Clock) – Albrecht Mayer, ob; St. Martin’s Academy/Mathias Mönius. Decca 4782564. [17:03] 3:00 Florence Price Fantasie Nègre No. 4 in b minor – Samantha Ege, p. Lorelt LNT-144. [10:01] Thomas Tallis Why Fumeth in Fight – Atlanta Sym Chamber Chorus. Telarc CD-80676. [00:55]
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Atlanta Sym Strings/Robert Spano. Telarc CD-80676. [16:23] William Walton Henry V Suite – Royal Phil/André Previn. MCA Classics MCAD-6187. [15:49]
4:00 Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont, Op. 84: Overture, four Entr’actes, Victory Symphony – New York Phil/ Kurt Masur. Teldec 77313-2. [25:48] Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61: Nocturne & Scherzo – Jeffrey Kahane & Wu Han, p. Music@ Menlo Live 2009. [10:15]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 99595-2. [17:10] Barenboim conducts music by Wagner and Smetana on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00. Claude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – Santa Cecilia Orch/Leonard Bernstein. DG B0027991-02. [11:39] Jean Sibelius The Tempest, Op. 109: Suite No. 2 – Scottish Chamber Orch/Joseph Swensen. Linn CKD-540. [15:33] 6:00 Hector Berlioz Romeo and Juliet, Op. 17: Orchestral suite – World Orch for Peace/Valery Gergiev. World Orchestra for Peace WOP-003/4 (2). [44:22] 7:00 Franz Schubert Die Forelle – Arleen Auger, s; Lambert Orkis, p. Virgin Classics 61457-2 (2). [2:09] Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, Trout – Thomas Ades, p; members of Belcea Quartet; Colin Long, db. EMI CDC5-57664-2. [41:15]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Daniel Barenboim,
conductor – Smetana: My Fatherland. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Prelude to Act 1 of Die Meistersinger.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner with
Henry Fogel: Recordings by the Hungarian pianist Sari Biro (1912-1990).
Monday 30
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Arthur Benjamin Overture to an Italian Comedy – Sydney Sym/Joseph Post. ABC Classics 442374-2 (2). [6:14] Johannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 414488-2. [10:35] Strauss Family On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz; Radetzky March – Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti. Sony 88985477002. [14:40]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Georg Philipp Telemann Divertimento in A – Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archive 463074-2. [11:03] 11:00 Ron Nelson Savannah River Holiday – Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart. RCA 68786-2. [8:39]
12:00 Music in Chicago,
plus: Antonin Dvorák Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66 – Royal Liverpool Phil/Libor Pesek. Virgin Classics 90797-2. [14:13]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Daniel-François Auber The Bronze Horse Overture – Detroit Sym/Paul Paray. Mercury 434309-2. [6:49] William Grant Still Violin and Piano Suite – Randall Goosby, v; Zhu Wang, p. Decca B0033878-02. [14:17]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko. Avie AV-2188. [35:47]
3:00 Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 16 in D, K. 451 – Rudolf Serkin, p; Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 474328-2 (2). [24:38] Aaron Copland The Tender Land: Introduction and Love Music – Boston Sym/Aaron Copland. RCA 61505-2. [10:14]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill
McGlaughlin: Beethoven and That Danged Metronome
8:00 Ravinia Festival 2021 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Tuesday 31
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Patrick Doyle Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film music: Quidditch World Cup/The Foreigners Arrive; Neville’s Waltz; Harry in Winter; The Golden Egg – City of Prague Phil/James Fitzpatrick. Silva SILCD-1251. [14:50] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute Overture – English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Archive 4491662 (2). [5:55] Alexander Alyabiev The Magic Drum Suite – Moscow Phil Society Chamber Ensemble/Andrei Korsakov. MCA Classics AED-10370. [14:00]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,
including today’s new release, plus: Henry Purcell King Arthur Suite – Alison Balsom, tr; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. EMI 40329-2. [14:20] 11:00 David Popper Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68 – Civitas Ensemble. Cedille CDR90000179. [8:20] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Samuel Barber Souvenirs, Op. 28 – Zofo Duet. Sono Luminus DSL-92167. [17:28]
1:00 Music for the Afternoon •
Adolphe Adam Giselle Suite – Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan. Decca 4731712 (2). [12:33] Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata No. 208, Hunt: Sheep May Safely Graze – Christopher Parkening, g; LA Chamber Orchestra. EMI 47195-2. [5:41]
2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58 – Mahler Chamber Orch/Leif Ove Andsnes, p. Sony 70548. [34:00] 3:00 William Grant Still Symphony No. 4, Autochthonous – Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter. Naxos 8.559603. [26:15] Joaquín Rodrigo Tres Evocaciones (Homenaje a Joaquin Turina) – María Garzón, p. ASV CDDCA-990. [13:32]
4:00 Late Afternoon Music with
Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill
McGlaughlin: Beethoven and That Danged Metronome
8:00 North Shore Chamber
Music Festival 2021: Dave Schwan hosts a performance from the festival, recorded in June, featuring the Piano Quintet by Franck and works by Moszkowski, Sarasate, and Faure.
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Schubert:
Rondo in A, D. 951. Steven Stucky: Schubert Dream. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2.
