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WXXI-FM 91.5 Listings for October 2009

SUNDAY
 
12:00pm            Saint Paul Sunday
10/4      Joshua Bell, v; Frederic Chiu, p
10/11            Endellion String Quartet
10/18    Steven Isserlis, c; Ana-Maria Vera, p
10/25    Nobilis
 
2:00pm             Best of Backstage Pass ♦
10/18    Julia Figueras welcomes Ossia to the Henry Epstein studio.
 
3:00pm             The New York Philharmonic
10/4      Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Petra Lang, ms; Women of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Joe Miller, dir; The American Boychoir, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, dir Alan Gilbert, cond)
10/11            Brahms: Violin Concerto Schoenberg: Pelléas and Mélisande (Frank Peter Zimmermann, v; Alan Gilbert, cond)
10/18            Lindberg: EXPO (World Premiere) Ives: Symphony No. 2 Ives: The Unanswered Question Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (Emanuel Ax, p; Alan Gilbert, cond)
10/25            Beethoven: Egmont Overture Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Mendelssohn: Scherzo in g (Alan Gilbert, cond)
 
5:00pm             From the Top
10/4      TBA
10/11    From the Top continues its 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Heifeitz International Music Institute in Wolfeboro, NH where we’ll bring back pianist Stephanie Nilles, now a burgeoning singer/songwriter who will play the same Shostakovich quintet she performed on the show eight years ago and delight us with one of her own original tunes.
10/18    From the Saenger Auditorium in charming Mobile, Alabama with Mobile's Singing Children performing Mozart and a teenage bassoonist from Tennessee whose passion for classical music doesn't exactly follow family tradition.
10/25    This week from the El Paso Music Festival, From the Top celebrates the $1 million in Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award scholarships awarded over the past four years. We'll meet five young musicians for whom this $10,000 scholarship is a life-changing achievement.
 
6:00pm             Music from Chautauqua
10/4      Piston: String Quartet No. 3 Brahms: String Quartet No. 1  Ellington/Strayhorn: Take the A Train (The Harlem Quartet)
10/11    Colina: Idoru Trio (World Premiere) Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 1 (The New Arts Trio)
10/18    Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 Gershwin: Piano Concerto (Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra                                              )
10/25    Arnold: Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet Jacob: Sextet Audubon Quartet
Schickele: String Quartet No. 1, American Dreams (Chautauqua Wind Quintet)
 
7:00pm             With Heart & Voice ♦
10/4      Vespers or Evensong
10/11    Voices from American Cathedrals, Pt I
10/18    Voices from American Cathedrals, Pt II
10/25    Bach, Luther, Walter, Munzer
 
 
8:00pm             Pipedreams
10/4      Listen to This! The collaborative efforts of performers and recording engineers, and the splendid sonorities of fine instruments in good rooms, work in accord to reveal unusual repertoire.
10/11    Verizon Virtuosity Selections from recital recordings on the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ (by Dobson) at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia
10/18            Fireworks and Dreams Music and conversation featuring internationally touring British recitalist Christopher Herrick, in celebration of his 40th anniversary as a recording artist.
10/25            Pipedreams Live!in Rochester (Part 1) Performances by students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival.
 
MONDAY
 
7:00pm             Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
10/5      The Symphony, Part IV
10/12    Autumn Leaves
10/19    Aaron Copland
10/26    Sounds of the City of Light
 
8:00PM             San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
10/5            Einojuhani: Manhattan Trilogy Bruch: Fantasy on Scottish Respighi: The Fountains of Rome Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2 (James Ehnes, v; Vladimir Ashkenazy, cond)
10/12    Ligeti: San Francisco Polyphony Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 (Hélène Grimaud, p; Ingo Metzmacher, cond)
10/19            Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 6, Pathétique (Nikolai Lugansky, p; Herbert Blomstedt, cond)
10/26    Mozart: Divertimento in D, Piano Concerto No. 22, Symphony No.38, Prague (Jonathan Biss, p; Herbert Blomstedt, cond)
 
TUESDAY
 
8:00pm             Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
10/6      Verdi: Overture to La forza del Destino Fletcher: Clarinet Concerto (world premiere)
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Michael Rusinek, cl; Manfred Honeck, cond)
10/13    Weber: Overture to Oberon Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Dvorak: The Water Sprite
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite (Gil Shaham, v; Juraj Valcuha, cond)
10/20    Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music, Piano Concerto No. 27 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905 (Garrick Ohlsson, p; Louis Langree, cond)
10/27            Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 (William Cabellero, h; Andre Previn, cond)
 
WEDNESDAY
 
12:10pm            Live from Hochstein ♦ Chris Van Hof hosts
10/21    Argos Trio (Liana Koteva and Lars Kirvan of RPO, Linda Boianova)
10/28    Antara Winds
 
8:00pm             Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra ♦
10/7      Guest conductor Yoav Talmi leads Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 and his own Double Marriage of Figaro as well as Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4 with Stefan Jackiw.
10/14            Christopher Seaman conducts Holst's The Planets and Haydn's Symphony No. 45 "Farewell" in the final concert in Eastman Theatre before the renovation.
 
8:00pm             Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
10/21            Piazolla: Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra Sierra: Missa Latina (Pro Pax) (Heidi Grant Murphy, s; Nathaniel Webster, bar; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, dir; Daniel Binelli, bandoneón; Andreas Delfs, cond)
10/28            Wininsky: Festival Fifty Brahms: Symphony No. 3 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor (Andre Watts, p; Andreas Delfs, cond)
 
THURSDAY
 
8:00pm             BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10/1      Bartók: Excerpts from Bluebeard’s Castle (Jessye Norman, s; László Polgár, bs; Pierre Boulez, cond) Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Sir Georg Solti, cond)
10/8            Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela and Lemminkäinen in Tuonela from Four Legends from the Kalevala (Jukka-Pekka Saraste, cond), Violin Concerto in d (Lisa Batiashvili, v; Charles Dutoit, cond), Rakastava, Symphony No. 5 (Osmo Vänskä, cond)
10/15            Wagner:  Hail Bright Abode from Tannhäuser (Frederick Stock, cond) Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser (Daniel Barenboim, cond) Copland: Suite from The Tender Land (Fritz Reiner, cond) Beethoven:  Symphony No. 8 (Sir Georg Solti, cond) Strauss:  Oboe Concerto (Alex Klein, ob; Daniel Barenboim, cond) Handel:  Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah (Chicago Symphony ChorusMargaret Hillis, dir; Sir Georg Solti, cond)
10/22    Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Barbara Frittoli, s; Olga Borodina, ms; Mario Zeffiri, t; Ildar Abdrazakov, bs; Chicago Symphony Chorus, DuainWolfe, dir; Riccardo Muti, cond) Dvořák: Te Deum (Patricia Racette, s; Philip Cutlip, bar, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, dir; Sir Mark Elder, cond)
10/29            Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand (Dmitri Alexeev, p) Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Eroica (Daniele Gatti, cond)
 
FRIDAY
 
1:00pm             BackStage Pass ♦
10/16    Julia Figueras welcomes Ossia to the Henry Epstein studio. Taking its name from the score marking that indicates a musical alternative, Ossia provides alternatives for the performance of new music at the Eastman School of Music, throughout the Rochester area and beyond. (repeat: Sun 10/18 at 2:00 p.m.)
 
8:00pm             APM SymphonyCast
10/2            Mendelssohn: Piano Concert No. 1 Mahler: Symphony No. 10(London Gewandhaus Orchestra; Leipzig Riccardo Chailly, cond)
10/9      Haydn: Symphony No. 97 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 (London Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cond)
10/16    Adams: City Noir Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, cond)
10/23            Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 (Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Hilary Hahn, v; Kare Nordstoga, org; Andrew Litton, cond)
10/30            Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 7  (The Cleveland Orchestra; Louis Lortie, p; Kurt Masur cond)
 
 
SATURDAY
 
7:00am             Cadenza! ♦
Classical 91.5 host Chris Van Hof serves as soloist each week, improvising an elaborate flourish of selected classical and crossover style music to accompany your Saturday morning routine. 
 
11:00am            Fascinatin’ Rhythm  ♦
10/3      Hoagy Carmichael, City & Country
10/10    Mr Moon & Evening Star
10/17    Different America
10/24    That Eccentric Rag
10/31    Songs About Songwriting
 
1:00pm             San Francisco Opera
10/3      R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (in German)
10/10            Puccini: Tosca (in Italian)
10/17    Verdi:  La Traviata (in Italian)
10/24    Mozart: Don Giovanni (in Italian)
 
1:00pm             Houston Grand Opera
10/31    Berlioz: Beatrice and Benedict (in English)
 
6:00pm             A Prairie Home Companion
10/3      A live broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater with special guests: Wilco, Patty Loveless.         
10/10    A live broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater with special guest Neko Case.
10/17    A live broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater with special guest Rosanne Cash.
10/24    A live broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater with special guest Old Crow Medicine Show.
10/31    A live broadcast from the Bismarck Civic Center in Bismarck, ND.
 
8:00pm             Thistle & Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie
10/3      Highland Homecoming In the year of Scottish homecoming, we tell the story of emigration from the Highlands through song.
10/10    Patsy Seddon in Conversation Harper and singer Patsy Seddon joins Fiona for a musical chat recorded at the Perthshire Amber Festival.
10/17            Essential Celtic  Building a Celtic music collection that reflects the past and present, honoring the purity of tradition and the spirit of innovation.
10/24    In Full Voice Traditional and contemporary song is thriving, with great new releases coming out all the time.
10/31    Local Heroes Meet some musicians who are best known on their home turf as we relish taking their music to wider audiences.