NY Philharmonic Announces Details for Weekly Radio Broadcasts

In April 2011 The New York Philharmonic This Week - the two-hour, national, weekly radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin - begins with the fourth and final program from Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Mr. Salonen leads Haydn's Symphony No. 8, Le Soir; Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Olli Mustonen as soloist; Ligeti's Clocks and Clouds, featuring the Women of New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director; and Bartók's Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin. The following week Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Prokofiev's American Overture for Orchestra, Op 42; the New York Premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina's In Tempus Praesens, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, with Anne-Sophie Mutter, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, as soloist; and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, Little Russian. 

 

The third week will feature commercial New York Philharmonic recordings of pieces by Mexican composers Carlos Chávez and Manuel Ponce, and Spanish composer Manuel De Falla. The broadcast includes Chávez's Sinfonia India (conducted by Leonard Bernstein, recorded 1961); Ponce's Concierto de sur (conducted by Jose Serebrier, featuring guitarist Sharon Isbin, recorded 2004); and Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat (conducted by Pierre Boulez, with soloist Jan DeGaetani, recorded 1975) and El amor brujo (conducted by Leonard Bernstein, with soloist Marilyn Horne, recorded 1976). Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur leads the final April broadcast with a program that includes Liszt's Les Préludes; Sofia Gubaidulina's Two Paths, with Philharmonic PrincipAl Viola Cynthia Phelps and Associate PrincipAl Viola Rebecca Young as soloists; and Brahms's Symphony No. 1. 

 

The New York Philharmonic This Week airs locally in the New York metropolitan area on Classical 105.9 FM WQXR, Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. [Check local listings]. Concerts are available on the Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org, for two weeks following the broadcast. The broadcasts are produced and syndicated to more than 300 outlets internationally by the WFMT Radio Network. Alec Baldwin is the host of the program, WFMT's Mark Travis is the broadcast producer, and New York Philharmonic Audio Director Lawrence Rock is the engineer and music producer. 

 

The New York Philharmonic's first Live National radio broadcast took place on October 5, 1930, over the CBS radio network. On that Sunday, Erich Kleiber was on the podium leading the Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Since that historic broadcast, the Philharmonic has enjoyed an almost continuous presence on national radio. Advancing its role as a media pioneer, the Philharmonic, since 2002, has shared its radio broadcast with a worldwide audience through its Website, nyphil.org. In 2004, the New York Philharmonic was the first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts, recorded live. Following on this innovation, in 2009 the Orchestra announced the first-ever subscription download series: Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season, available exclusively on iTunes, produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and comprising more than 50 works performed during the 2009–10 season. This season the Orchestra released another iTunes pass: Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010-11 Season. Since 1917 the Philharmonic has made nearly 2,000 recordings, with more than 500 currently available. 

 

 

 

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