The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s 2010 Summer Concert series highlights the first year of Edo de Waart’s tenure as the orchestra’s Music Director. Wisconsin Public Radio offers you two opportunities to hear these concerts, Sunday afternoons at 2pm:
- The NPR News & Classical Network: From July 4 through September 26
- WPR's 24 Hour HD2 Classical service:From July 18 through October 10.
(More on our HD2 services)
July 4 (also available on HD2 Classical on July 18)
Edo de Waart, conductor, with Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano and Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Bernstein: Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor
July 11 (also available on HD2 Classical on July 25)
Edo de Wart, conductor, with Frank Almond, violin; Joseph Johnson, cello
Qigang Chen: Five Elements
Brahms: Concerto in A Minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 102, “Double Concerto”
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
July 18 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 1)
Edo de Waart, conductor, with Joyce Yang, piano
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3 in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 30
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
July 25 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 8)
Edo de Wart, conductor, with Ilana Setapen, violin; Robert Levine, viola; Jeanne-Michle Charbonnet, soprano; Andrea Silvestrelli, bass and Dominique Serrand, narrator
Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E-Flat Major for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, K. 364 (320d)
Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle
August 1 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 15)
Edo de Wart, conductor, with various soloists and the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Gabrieli: Three Canzoni for Brass
Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48
Beethoven: Symphony #9 in d minor, op. 125 "Choral"
August 8 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 22)
Edo de Wart, conductor, with Ingrid Fliter, piano
Salonen: Gambit
Mozart: Concerto No. 23 in A Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 488
Wagner/de Vlieger: Meistersinger, an orchestral tribute
August 15 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 29)
Edo de Wart, conductor, with Vadim Repin, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral
Beethoven: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61
August 22 (also available on HD2 Classical on September 5)
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor, with Todd Levy, clarinet
Copland: El Salón México
Mark Neikrug: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
Adams: Dr. Atomic Symphony
Gershwin: An American in Paris
August 29 (also available on HD2 Classical on September 12)
Edo de Wart, conductor, with Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Berlioz: Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict
Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 21
Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 55
September 5 (also available on HD2 Classical on September 19)
Edo de Wart, conductor, with Joseph Johnson, cello
Fauré: Suite from Pelléas et Melisande, Op. 80
Saint-Saëns: Concerto No. 1 in A Minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique
September 12 (also available on HD2 Classical on September 26)
Edo de Wart, conductor, with Twyla Robinson, soprano; Luca Pisaroni, baritone; Milwaukee Children’s Choir, Carol Storck, artistic director; Jenny Gettel, Jubilate director; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (1948 version)
Brahms: A German Requiem, Op. 45
September 19 (also available on HD2 Classical on October 3)
Gilbert Varga, conductor, with William Barnewitz, horn
Haydn: Symphony No. 73 in D Major, La Chasse
Mozart: Concerto No. 1 in D Major for Horn and Orchestra, K386b (412)
Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra, K. 447
Ravel: Five Pieces from Ma Mere l’Oye (Mother Goose)
September 26 (also available on HD2 Classical on October 10)
Edo de Waart, conductor, Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Milwaukee Children’s Choir, Carol Storck, director; Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in d minor
