May, 2008 - WXXI

may2008CLASSICAL PROGRAMMING29Sunday12:00pmSaint Paul Sunday5/4 Mark O’Connor’s Appalachia Waltz Trio5/11 The Harp Consort5/18 Amelia Piano Trio5/25 Osvaldo Golijov; Todd Palmer, cl; Saint LawrenceString Quartet3:00pmThe New York Philharmonic5/4 Beethoven: Leonore Overture in G, Piano ConcertoNo. 4 Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 (RichardGoode, p; Sir Colin Davis, cond)5/11 Tan Dun: Piano Concerto (World Premiere & NYPCommission) Stravinsky: The Firebird (Lang Lang,p; Leonard Slatkin, cond)5/18 Glinka: Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla Prokofiev:Peter and the Wolf Khachaturian: Pas de Deux fromSpartacus Borodin: In the Steppes of Central AsiaTchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien (Kevin Kline, narr;Bramwell Tovey, cond)5/25 Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of FigaroBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 Rachmaninoff:Symphonic Dances Ravel: La Valse (MarthaArgerich, p; Charles Dutoit, cond)5:00pmFrom the Top5/4 This week’s From the Top comes from the WorthamTheater Center in Houston, Texas.5/11 From the Music Center at Strathmore, Bethesda,MD, we’ll hear a teenage baritone from New Jerseysinging from Vaughn Williams’ Songs of Travel, a15-year-old local violinist plays Saint-Saëns, andaudiences will meet the mother of the nationallyfamous “girl who drove over her violin!”5/18 TBA5/25 From their summer home at Artpark, the BuffaloPhilharmonic orchestra with Music Director JoAnnFaletta presents a show featuring teenage soloistsplaying concerti with the orchestra. Host ChristopherO’Riley joins an 18-year-old pianist and the orchestrafor a movement of the famous Poulenc DoubleConcerto.6:00pmLa Jolla Music Society Summerfest5/4 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 (Yon Kwon,v; Catherine Ransom Karoly & Demarre McGill, f;David Chan & Bei Zhu, v; Scott Lee, vla; JonathanKaroly, c; Nico Abondolo, bs; Anthony Newman, hc)Brahms: Sextet (Joel Smirnoff & Helen Nightengale,v; Paul Neubauer & Pierre Lapointe, vla; Lynn Harrell& Andrew Janss, c)5/11 Beethoven: Quartet (Shanghai Quartet) Dvorak:Slavonic Dance No. 8 (Cecile Licad & JosephKalichstein, p) Smetana: Piano Trio (Cho-Liang Lin,v; Gary Hoffman, c; Cecile Licad, p)5/18 Shostakovich: Prelude for String Octet (ShanghaiQuartet, Escher String Quartet) Brahms: PianoQuintet (Joseph Kalichstein, p; Chee-Yun & AdamBarnett-Hart, v; James Dunham, vla; Gary Hoffman,c) Schubert: Auf dem Strom for Voice and Pianowith Horn obbligato (Heidi Grant Murphy, s; KevinMurphy, p; Richard Todd, hn)5/25 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Margaret Batjer,v; Catherine Ransom Karoly, f; Richard Woodhams,o; David Washburn, picc tr; Yoon Kwon & Bei Zhu,v; Scott Lee, vla; Jonathan Karoly, c; Nico Abondolo,bs; Anthony Newman, hc) Beethoven: Große Fuge(Orion Weiss & Shai Wosner, p) Bach: BrandenburgConcerto No. 5 (Anthony Newman, hc; DemarreMcGill, f; David Chan, v; Yoon Kwon, v; Scott Lee,vla; Felix Fan, c; Nico Abondolo, bs) Gershwin:Summertime (Sylvia McNair, s; Ted Taylor, p)7:00pmWith Heart & Voice5/4 Boyce, Cavalli, Gibbons5/11 Day of Pentecost5/18 Trinity Sunday5/25 Cook, Bill, Mauersberge, Schubert8:00pmPipedreams5/4 Conventional Wisdom5/11 TBA5/18 TBA5/25 TBA