NY Philharmonic Sets Worldwide Radio Broadcasts for July–September 2015

The July-September broadcasts of The New York Philharmonic This Week - the weekly radio series of concerts and recordings by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Alec Baldwin - will feature diverse programming, including Music Director Alan Gilbert leading Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, in A Concert for New York on the 10th anniversary of 9/11; Bramwell Tovey conducing works including the World Premiere of a work he himself composed, featuring Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi as soloist; and special compilations celebrating former Philharmonic Music Directors Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, and Kurt Masur.

The New York Philharmonic This Week was awarded two Gold World Medals for Best Sound and Best Regularly Scheduled Music Program at the 2015 New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards recognizing The World's Best Radio Programs. The Philharmonic's tribute to former Music Director Lorin Maazel won Gold Medals for Best Director, Best Historical Piece, and Best Arts & Culture Piece, a Silver World Medal for Best Narration, and a Bronze World Medal for Best Music Special. The New York Philharmonic was also awarded a special Grand Jury Prize.

The broadcasts of The New York Philharmonic This Week showcase Bramwell Tovey conducting the Philharmonic in six different programs including, A New York Fourth, featuring Americana favorites by Bernstein, Gershwin, and more; an all-Tchaikovsky program with Simon Trpc?eski performing the rarely heard Piano Concerto No. 2; a concert from last year's Bravo! Vail festival with Associate Principal Clarinet Mark Nuccio as soloist in Copland's Clarinet Concerto; Star- Spangled Celebration, with the United States Coast Band joining the Philharmonic for a program of works by Sousa, Copland, and Bernstein; the World Premiere of Bramwell Tovey's The Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret for Trombone and Orchestra, with Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi as soloist; and another Bravo! Vail festival performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Joyce Yang as soloist.

In August, the tribute to Bramwell Tovey concludes with two programs: The Planets - An HD Odyssey, which includes works inspired by space and travel composed by John Adams, Offenbach, and Josef Strauss as well as the work by Holst that gives the broadcast its title; and a Bravo! Vail festival concert featuring works by Copland, Tovey and Dvor?a?k.

In the last two weeks of August, Music Director Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic in two programs. In the first Yefim Bronfman is the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, in a program that includes music by Nielsen, Grieg, Liszt, and Toscanini's 1951 arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner." The second is a performance from the Philharmonic's summer residency at Bravo! Vail featuring works by Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and The Marie-Jose?e Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse's Oboe Concerto, with Principal Oboe Liang Wang as soloist.

September begins with the compilation program The Artistry of Zubin Mehta, featuring the former Music Director conducting highlights from George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children; Mozart's Symphony No. 25; Barto?k's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Daniel Barenboim as soloist; Furtwangler's Symphony No. 2, Scherzo; and Webern's Six Orchestral Pieces.

Next, Alan Gilbert leads the Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, as part of A Concert for New York - a free performance given in remembrance and renewal on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. This week's program also includes the Orchestra's 2010 performance of John Adams's The Wound-Dresser with baritone Thomas Hampson, then The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence.

In the third September program the Philharmonic celebrates another former Music Director with Pierre Boulez at 90, featuring the composer-conductor leading highlights from his own Pli selon Pli: Improvisations sur Mallarme?, Debussy's La Mer, and Barto?k's The Miraculous Mandarin.

The final week of September broadcast highlights Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur, including performances of selections from Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg; John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Mozart's Symphony No. 41; Ives's Three Places in New England, Brant's Desert Forests; Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3; Thomas Ade?s's America (A Prophesy); Coleman's Skies of America; and Martin's Sechs Monologe aus Jederman.

The New York Philharmonic This Week airs locally in the New York metropolitan area on WQXR 105.9 FM, Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. [Check local listings.] Concerts are available on the Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org, for two weeks following the broadcast. The broadcasts are syndicated to more than 465 outlets nationally and 122 outlets internationally by the WFMT Radio Network. The New York Philharmonic can also be heard on the radio in China on Shanghai Classical 94.7 FM every other Friday at 7:00 p.m. thanks to a new agreement between the WFMT Radio Network and the Shanghai East Radio Company except for June when the New York Philharmonic will be featured every Friday. Alec Baldwin is the host, New York Philharmonic Audio Producer Mark Travis is the broadcast producer, and Audio Director Lawrence Rock is the 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 broadcasts 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. In the 2013-14 season, the Orchestra released another digital recording series: Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2013-14 Season. The first two albums are now available for download and streaming. Since 1917 the Philharmonic has made nearly 2,000 recordings, with more than 500 currently available.

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The New York Philharmonic This Week is generously underwritten by The Kaplen Brothers

Fund, the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philharmonic's corporate partner, MetLife Foundation.

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Christopher Rouse is The Marie-Jose?e Kravis Composer-in-Residence for the 2014-15

season.

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Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of

Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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