April 2016 listings for APM SymphonyCast

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

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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)