April 2016 listings for APM SymphonyCast

April 2016 listings for APM SymphonyCast

Fridays at 8:00 p.m.

Violinist Midori will perform Shostakovich's first Violin Concerto.

ffHaitink led the orchestra, with piano soloist Murray Perahia, in performances of Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony - See more at: http://bostonclassicalreview.com/2014/02/haitink-and-perahia-dispatch-a-dispassionate-evening-with-bso/#sthash.ozB3Ne1X.dpufTTasfd

This month, we will hear major works by Mahler, Bartók, Bach, and Respighi, as well as Midori performing Shostakovich's first Violin Concerto.

4/1        Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Houston Symphony Orchestra; Christian Eschenbach, cond)
4/8        Tuur: Aditus Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (Midori, v; NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo; Paavo Jarvi, cond)

4/15      Schumann: Overture to Genoveva Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 Reimann: Seven Fragments for Orchestra in memory of Robert Schumann Strauss: Four Symphonic Interludes (Maurizio Pollini, p; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Christian Thielemann, cond)

4/22      Lafortune: Un canard de Brome qui avait voulu jouer au cygnet Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake ballet suite Bach:  Violin Concerto Respighi: The Pines of Rome (Shunske Sato, v; Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Kent Nagano, cond)

4/29      Shostakovich: Festive Overture Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Kirill Gerstein, p; Houston Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, cond)