FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 13, 2015
Contact: Katherine E. Johnson
(212) 875-5718; [email protected]
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF
WEEKLY RADIO BROADCASTS,
THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK
April–June 2015
HIGHLIGHTS TO INCLUDE
Alan Gilbert Leading the New York Philharmonic in the World Premiere of
John Adams’s Scheherazade.2, the U.S. Premiere of Thierry Escaich’s Concerto for Violin
and Oboe with The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Lisa Batiashvili and
Oboist François Leleux, and the Conclusion of The Nielsen Project with
Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto Featuring Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill
Weekly Radio Broadcast Series Is Produced by the New York Philharmonic and
Distributed Worldwide by the WFMT Radio Network
The April 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 — begin with
Music Director Alan Gilbert leading the Orchestra in Bach’s Mass in B minor with soprano
Dorothea Röschmann, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, tenor Steve Davislim, bass-baritone
Eric Owens, and the New York Choral Artists, directed by Joseph Flummerfelt.
Next, Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic in Nielsen’s Flute Concerto, with Principal
Flute Robert Langevin as soloist, and Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with soloist Nikolaj Znaider as
part of The Nielsen Project — the Philharmonic’s multi-season survey of the six symphonies and
three concertos by Danish composer Carl Nielsen. The program concludes with Tchaikovsky’s
Symphony No. 2, Little Russian.
In the third week of April broadcasts Alan Gilbert leads the Orchestra in Dvořák’s Cello
Concerto, featuring Principal Cello Carter Brey as soloist, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5;
the broadcast concludes with Mr. Brey performing J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied
Cello in G major, BWV 1007 from his solo performance at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on
April 1, 2013.
Next, Alan Gilbert leads the Orchestra in the World Premiere of John Adams’s Scheherazade.2
— Dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra — a Philharmonic Co-Commission with the
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam; the Royal Concertgebouw; and the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson, Chief Conductor and Artistic Director — performed by
violinist Leila Josefowicz, for whom it is written and dedicated. The concerts also include two
early 20th-century Russian works, Stravinsky’s Petrushka (original 1911 version) and Lyadov’s
The Enchanted Lake.
The last week in April features Alan Gilbert leading the New York Philharmonic in the New
York Premiere of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Oboe
Concerto, featuring Principal Oboe Liang Wang, and Richard Strauss’s Don Juan and Also
sprach Zarathustra, both featuring then Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow in the highlighted
concertmaster solos.
In the first broadcast in May, Andrey Boreyko returns to lead the Orchestra in Stravinsky’s The
Song of the Nightingale; Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, with Principal Bassoon Judith LeClair; and
Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid, Fantasy for Orchestra.
Next, Music Director Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic in a celebration of the
centennial of English composer, conductor, and pianist Benjamin Britten. The program will
include Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, featuring tenor Michael Slattery, and
Philharmonic Principal Horn Philip Myers, and Britten’s Spring Symphony, with soprano Kate
Royal, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, New York Choral Artists
directed by Joseph Flummerfelt, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus directed by Dianne BerkunMenaker.
In the third week of May, Music Director Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic in
Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, with Philharmonic Artist-in-Association Inon Barnatan in
his Philharmonic debut. The program also includes Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx, Debussy’s Jeux,
and Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite.
The next three weeks feature Alan Gilbert leading the Orchestra in The Beethoven Piano
Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival, in which Yefim Bronfman (then The Mary and James G.
Wallach Artist-in-Residence) performs the complete Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle. Two of
the programs set Beethoven’s works alongside World Premieres. The first of these three
programs features Beethoven’s Concertos Nos. 1 and 4, as well as the World Premiere of
Anthony Cheung’s Lyra, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of The MarieJosée Kravis Prize for New Music. The Philharmonic’s June broadcasts begin with the second
program in the Beethoven festival: Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3, as well as the
World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission of Kravis Emerging Composer Sean
Shepherd’s Songs. The following week features the festival’s final program: Beethoven’s Piano
Concerto No. 5, Emperor, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto,
featuring Mr. Bronfman, Principal Cello Carter Brey, and then Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow in
his final Philharmonic appearances before concluding his 34-year tenure.
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Next, Lisa Batiashvili concludes her tenure as the 2014–15 Mary and James G. Wallach Artistin-Residence, performing the U.S. Premiere of Thierry Escaich’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe,
a Philharmonic co-commission with Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, coupled with J.S.
Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe. In both of these works she is joined by oboist François
Leleux, her husband, in his Philharmonic debut. Conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, the
program also includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10.
In the final week of June broadcasts, the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert conclude The
Nielsen Project — the Philharmonic’s acclaimed multi-season survey of the six symphonies and
three concertos by Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865–1931), whose 150th anniversary of his
birth will be marked that month — with Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto, featuring Principal Clarinet
Anthony McGill in his Philharmonic debut. The program also includes Ravel’s Valses nobles et
sentimentales and selections from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
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-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence.
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Lisa Batiashvili is The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence.
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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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Alec Baldwin is the Radio Host of the New York Philharmonic. The actor last appeared onstage
in the 2010 Guild Hall (East Hampton) production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus, directed by Tony
Walton. Mr. Baldwin’s other stage credits include Entertaining Mr. Sloane (the Roundabout
Theatre Company, 2006 production); Loot (Broadway, 1986); Serious Money (Broadway, 1988);
Prelude to a Kiss (Circle Repertory Company, in 1990 (Obie Award); A Streetcar Named Desire
(Broadway, 1992); Macbeth (New York Shakespeare Festival, 1998); and The Twentieth Century
(Roundabout Theatre Company, 2004), earning him Theatre World and Obie Awards as well as a
Tony nomination.
Mr. Baldwin has appeared in more than 50 films, including Beetlejuice, Working Girl, Miami
Blues, The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Juror, The Edge, Ghosts of
Mississippi, State and Main, The Cat in the Hat, The Cooler (National Board of Review Award
for Best Supporting Actor and an Oscar nomination), The Aviator, The Departed, and It’s
Complicated. On television Mr. Baldwin starred with Tina Fey on NBC’s 30 Rock, winner of the
2007, 2008, and 2009 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series. For his portrayal of Jack
Donaghy, Mr. Baldwin received seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globes, the
Television Critics Award, and two Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. In 2011
Mr. Baldwin received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His company, El Dorado
Pictures, has produced projects including Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial for TNT (Emmy Award
nomination); The Confession for Showtime (Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay);
and David Mamet’s film State and Main. A dedicated supporter of public policy and arts causes,
Alec Baldwin serves on the boards of the New York Philharmonic, People For the American
Way, The Hamptons International Film Festival, and Guild Hall of East Hampton. He is an
active supporter of The Radiation and Public Health Project, East Hampton Day Care Center,
The Actors Fund, The Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout Theatre
Company, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and The Water Keeper Alliance, among
many others. His book, A Promise to Ourselves, was published by St. Martin’s Press in
paperback in 2009.
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Lawrence Rock has been Audio Director of the New York Philharmonic since 1997, overseeing
all audio activities including recording, broadcasting, and live sound. He is the recording and
mastering engineer as well as a producer for the recent iTunes Passes, Alan Gilbert and the New
York Philharmonic: 2012–13 Season, and Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season, both produced
and distributed by the New York Philharmonic. His other recent projects have included
producing New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel: The Complete Mahler Symphonies, Live;
Deutsche Grammophon’s New York Philharmonic DG Concerts downloads; and a Deutsche
Grammophon recording of music by Richard Strauss, performed by the Philharmonic. In 2005
Mr. Rock received three Grammy Awards for John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, for
which he served as co-producer with the composer, and in 1997 he won a Grammy for
engineering an album of works by Aaron Copland, performed by the St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra. For the Philharmonic’s own recording label, New York Philharmonic Special
Editions, Mr. Rock co-produced the Grammy-nominated CD Sweeney Todd: Live at the New
York Philharmonic and the 10-CD set Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic. He has also
made recordings with the Chicago, Houston, and Milwaukee symphony orchestras.
Mark Travis, an award-winning 18-year music industry veteran, joined the New York
Philharmonic as its full-time in-house producer in August 2011. For the previous 12 years he
worked for Chicago’s WFMT Radio Network. He has written and produced The New York
Philharmonic This Week since its inaugural season in 2004–05. Other broadcast credits include
the Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts as well as broadcasts by the Berlin Philharmonic,
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Bavarian Staatsoper, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra. Mr. Travis has an extensive discography as a music producer that ranges from
recordings by the New York Philharmonic to those by William Warfield, Jenny Lin, Jeffrey
Siegel, the Lyrebird Ensemble, and the Chicago Chorale. An accomplished singer and classical
guitarist, he also hosts and produces several podcasts and educational pieces for a variety of
organizations. He is a member of the Classical Committee of the National Academy of
Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (NARAS) and serves on both the grand jury and advisory board
of the New York Festivals International Broadcasting Competition. From 2010–2012, Mr. Travis
proudly served as a music committee chair for the United States Artists Music Awards in Los
Angeles. In 2013 he and his production team earned a Gold World Medal for Best Sound, A
Bronze World Medal for Best Regularly Scheduled Music Program, and a Finalist Certificate for
Best Classical Format from the New York Festivals International Radio Awards for their work
on The New York Philharmonic This Week.
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THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK
April–June 2015
Week of April 1 (from March 13–16, 2013)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Dorothea Röschmann, soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Steve Davislim, tenor
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
New York Choral Artists,
Joseph Flummerfelt, director
J.S. BACH
Mass in B minor
Week of April 8 (from October 10–13, 2012)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Robert Langevin, flute
Nikolaj Znaider, violin
NIELSEN
NIELSEN
TCHAIKOVSKY
Flute Concerto
Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 2, Little Russian
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Week of April 15 (from March 27, April 1, and July 19, 2013)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Carter Brey, cello
DVOŘÁK
TCHAIKOVSKY
J.S. BACH
Cello Concerto (July 19, 2013)
Symphony No. 5 (July 19, 2013)
Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello in G major,
BWV 1007 (April 1, 2013)
Week of April 22 (from March 26–28, 2015)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
LYADOV
STRAVINSKY
John ADAMS
The Enchanted Lake
Petrushka (original 1911 version)
Scheherazade.2 — Dramatic symphony for violin
and orchestra (World Premiere–New
York Philharmonic Co-Commission
with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Amsterdam; the Royal Concertgebouw; and
the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, David
Robertson, Chief Conductor and Artistic
Director)
Week of April 29 (from November 14–16 and 19, 2013)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Liang Wang, oboe
R. STRAUSS
Christopher ROUSE
R. STRAUSS
Don Juan
Glenn Dicterow, violin
Oboe Concerto (New York Premiere)
Also sprach Zarathustra
Glenn Dicterow, violin
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Week of May 6 (from January 16–18, 2014)
Andrey Boreyko, conductor
Judith LeClair, bassoon
STRAVINSKY
MOZART
ZEMLINSKY
The Song of the Nightingale
Bassoon Concerto
The Mermaid, Fantasy for Orchestra
Week of May 13 (from November 21–23, 2013)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Michael Slattery*, tenor (Serenade)
Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor (Spring Symphony)
Philip Myers, horn
Kate Royal*, soprano
Sasha Cooke†, mezzo-soprano
New York Choral Artists
Joseph Flummerfelt, director
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun-Menaker, director
BRITTEN
BRITTEN
Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings
Spring Symphony
Week of May 20 (from March 19–20 and 24, 2015)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Inon Barnatan*, piano
Esa-Pekka SALONEN
RAVEL
DEBUSSY
R. STRAUSS
Nyx
Piano Concerto in G major
Jeux
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
*denotes New York Philharmonic debut
†denotes New York Philharmonic subscription debut
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Week of May 27 (from June 11–14, 2014)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
BEETHOVEN
Anthony CHEUNG
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1
Lyra (World Premiere–
New York Philharmonic Commission)
Piano Concerto No. 4
Week of June 3 (from June 19–21, 2014)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
BEETHOVEN
Sean SHEPHERD
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2
Songs (World Premiere–
New York Philharmonic Commission)
Piano Concerto No. 3
Week of June 10 (from June 24–28, 2014)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Glenn Dicterow, violin
Carter Brey, cello
BEETHOVEN
BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello
Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor
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Week of June 17 (from April 8–11, 2015)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
François Leleux*, oboe
J.S. BACH
Thierry ESCAICH
Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Concerto for Violin and Oboe
(U.S. Premiere–New York
Philharmonic Co-Commission with
Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra)
Symphony No. 10
SHOSTAKOVICH
Week of June 24 (from January 8–10 and 13, 2015)
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Anthony McGill*, clarinet
RAVEL
NIELSEN
TCHAIKOVSKY
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Clarinet Concerto
Selections from Swan Lake
*denotes New York Philharmonic debut
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