PROGRAM:   SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2011

Genre:        Classical Music
Length:        1 hour 58 minutes
Frequency:   8 weeks, plus 2 optional programs
                  (1 Operatic, 1 Contemporary music)    
DELIVERY TYPE:  ContentDepot File transfer and CD
Optional Breaks:  One

Host:     Kerry Frumkin
Producer:   Carolyn Paulin
Executive Producer:  Steve Robinson
Underwriter:   Salzburg Music Festival (Salzburger Festpiele)

The world's first international music festival and the most renowned, the Salzburg Festival this year continued its over 90-year history of producing and presenting great orchestras, soloists, opera, and theatre in the historic and picturesque Austrian town where Mozart was born.  This year's highlights include a special Vienna Philharmonic concert with conductor Franz Welser-Möst: two performances by the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, one led by Sir Colin Davis, with soloist Susan Graham, and one with young conductor Ainars Rubikis, this year's recipient of the Nestlé Young Conductors Award;  a performance of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra led by Trevor Pinnock; a recital of songs by Kurt Weill by soprano Angela Denoke; a recital by cellist Yo-Yo Ma; and chamber music by such major artists as pianist Mitsuko Uchida, counter-tenor Ian Bostridge,  oboist Albrecht Mayer, flutist Emmanuel Pahud, and violinist Renaud Capuçon. In addition, stations have the option of taking the complete opera Macbeth by Verdi with Riccardo Muti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, and a program of contemporary music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, performed by pianist Marino Formenti.

The WFMT Radio Network is offering live performances from the Salzburg Festival.  Salzburg Festival 2011 focused on the music of Gustav Mahler, and we'll include works by Mahler and his contemporaries Alexander Zemlinsky, Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss Jr. (as arranged for chamber ensemble by Alban Berg and Arnold Schönberg), as well as Mahler's own arrangement for orchestra of a Schubert String Quartet.
 
Salzburg Festival 2011 will include commentary by conductors, administrators and performers at this years Festival, as well as conversations with concert-goers and critics from around the globe. The world's stars have been drawn to Salzburg for decades, not only for the large-scale concerts and exposure, but for the intimacy and acoustic excellence of the historic Mozarteum Hall and the new House for Mozart. 

We know you will want to join us for this rare opportunity to visit this remarkable festival, Salzburg Festival 2011!

Stations are allowed one (1) broadcast of this series before July 31, 2012.

This series is available free of charge to all stations January 1 thru July 31, 2012.  For more information, please contact Tony Macaluso at (773) 279-2114, email: tmacaluso@wfmt.com or Carol Martinez at (773) 279-2112, email: cmartinez@wfmt.com

SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2011
Broadcast Schedule - Winter 2011

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-01  
RELEASE:  January 1, 2012

CONDUCTOR: Franz Welser-Möst
SOLOISTS:  Christina Schäfer, soprano; Michael Volle, baritone
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Philharmonic

Schubert/arr. Mahler: Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, Op. posth, Death and the Maiden 

Zemlinsky:  Lyric Symphony in Seven Songs, Op. 18, for Soprano, Baritone and     Orchestra

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-02  
RELEASE:  January 8, 2012

Title:   Mahler Szenen  

J. Strauss, Jr:  Roses from the South, Op. 388, arr. Arnold Schönberg (Renaud Capuçon,     1st violin; Katja Lämmermann, 2nd violin; Antoine Tamestit, viola;  Clemens Hagen, cello; Herbert Schuch, piano; Gereon Kleiner,      harmonium)
J. Strauss, Jr:  Wine, Women and Song, Op. 333, arr. Alban Berg (Renaud Capuçon,     1st violin; Katja Lämmermann, 2nd violin; Antoine Tamestit, viola;  Clemens Hagen, cello; Herbert Schuch, piano; Gereon Kleiner,      harmonium)
J. Strauss Jr:   Sweetheart Walzes, Op. 418, on motives from The Gypsy Baron; arr.     Anton Webern (Renaud Capuçon, 1st violin; Katja Lämmermann, 2nd     violin; Antoine Tamestit, viola; Clemens Hagen, cello; Herbert Schuch,     piano; Gereon Kleiner, harmonium)
J. Strauss, Jr:   Emperor Waltzes, Op. 437, arr. Arnold Schonberg (Renaud Capuçon, 1st     violin; Katja Lämmermann, 2nd violin; Antoine Tamestit, viola; Clemens     Hagen, cello; Herbert Schuch, piano; Gereon Kleiner, harmonium)
Mahler:  Symphony No. 4 in G Major, arr. for Chamber Ensemble and Soprano by     Erwin Stein (Christiane Karg, soprano; Magel Mosnier, flute & piccolo;
   Albrecht Mayer, oboe & English horn; Sebastian Manz, A and B-Flat     clarinets and bass clarinet; Renaud Capuçon, 1st  violin; Katja      Lämmermann, 2nd violin; Antoine Tamestit, viola; Clemens Hagen, cello;     Alois Posch, bass; Leonhard Schmidinger,, percussion; Martin Grubinger,     percussion; Herbert Schuch, piano Gereon Kleiner, harmonium)

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-03  
RELEASE:  January 15, 2012

CONDUCTOR: Trevor Pinnock
SOLOISTS:  Emmanuel Pahud, flute; Marie- Pierre Langlamet, harp
ORCHESTRA: Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

Title:   Mozart Matinee

W. A. Mozart:  Symphony in E-Flat Major, K. 184
   Six German Dances, K 571
   Concerto in C Major for Flute and Harp, K 299 (297c)
   Symphony in E-Flat Major, K 543

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-04  
RELEASE:  January 22, 2012

Title:   Chamber Concert

Schubert:   Notturno (Adagio) in E-Flat Major, Op. Posth 148/D. 897 (Mitsuko Uchida, piano; Mark Steinberg, violin; Clemens Hagen, cello)
Schumann:  Song Cycle, Dichterliebe, Op. 48 (Ian Bostridge, tenor; Mitsuko Uchida, piano)
Schönberg:  Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 for Speaker and Five Instruments (Barbara Sukowa, speaker; Marina Piccinni, flute/piccolo; Anthony McGill, clarinet/bass clarinet; Mark Steinberg, violin/viola; Clemens Hagen cello; Mitsuko Uchida, piano)

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-05  
RELEASE:  January 29, 2012

CONDUCTOR: Ainars Rubikis (2011 Young Conductors Award Honoree)
SOLOIST:  Alisa Weilerstein, cello
ORCHESTRA: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

Title:  Nestle Young Conductor Award Concert   

Debussy:  Prélude a l'aprés-midi d'un faune
Shostakovich:  Concerto No. 2, Op. 126, for Cello and Orchestra
Britten:  Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33 from Peter Grimes
Stravinsky:  L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird), Orchestral Suite of 1919

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-06  
RELEASE:  February 5, 2012

Title:   Kurt Weill: Two Lives to Live

SOLOISTS:  Angela Denoke, soprano; Tai Balshai, piano; Norbert Nagel, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, flute

K. Weill:  Jenny's Song (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)
   Ich bin eine arme Verwandte (The Silver Sea)
   Der ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit (The Threepenny Opera)
   Alabama Song (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)
   Barbara's Song (The Threepenny Opera)
   Nana's Lied (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitsköpfe)
   Siehst du den Mond über Soho? (The Threepenny Opera)
   Surabaya Johnny (Happy End)
   Two pieces from Café Bauer
   Song of Eliza Elliot (Lady in the Dark )
   Speak Low (One Touch of Venus)
   Lonely House (Street Scene)
   At Night When Ev'ry thing is Quiet (Street Scene)
   Sing Me Not a Ballad -Song of the Duchess (The Firebrand of Florence)
   September Song
   Is It Him Or Is It Me? (Love Life)
   Stay Well (Lost in the Stars)
   My Ship (Lady in the Dark)
   I'm a Stranger Here Myself (One Touch of Venus)
Encores:
  K. Weill:  All At Once (Where Go We Go From Here?)
   Don't Look Now (One Touch of Venus)
   Peter

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-07  
RELEASE:  February 12, 2012

Title:   Solo Recital

SOLOISTS:   Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano

Schubert:  Sonata in A Minor, D. 821 for Cello and Piano, Arpeggione 
Shostakovich:  Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 for Cello and Piano
Piazzolla:  Le Grand Tango for Cello and Piano
Gismonti:  Boda de prata and Quatro cantos arr. for Cello and Piano
Franck:  Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano/transcribed for Cello and Piano
Morricone:  Gabriel's Oboe
Falla:   Polo (Seven Popular Spanish Songs), arr. for Cello and Piano
Saint-Saëns:  The Swan from Carnival of the Animals

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-08
RELEASE:  February 19, 2012

CONDUCTOR: Sir Colin Davis
SOLOIST:  Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
ORCHESTRA: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

Stravinsky:  Symphony in Three Movements
Ravel:   Shéhérazade (Three songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra)
Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No.4 in F Minor, Op. 36

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-09  
RELEASE:  February 26, 2012
Note:   This program is optional

CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Muti
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Philharmonic
CHORUS:  Concert Chorus of the Vienna Philharmonic

COMPOSER:  Giuseppe Verdi   
OPERA:  Macbeth (Four Acts in Italian)

Cast:
Macbeth  Zeijko Lucic, baritone
Lady Macbeth: Tatiana Serjan, soprano
Banquo  Dmitry Belosselskiy bass
Lady-in-Waiting Anna Malavasi,mezzo soprano
Macduff  Giuseppe Filianott, tenor
Malcolm  Antonio Poli, tenor
Doctor   Gianluca Buratto, bass
Servant  André Schuen, bass
Murderer  Livio Gheorghe, bass
Herald   Ion Tibrea, bass

PROGRAM #:  SAL 12-10
RELEASE:  March 7, 2012
Note:   This program is optional

Title:   Der Fünfte Kontinent

SOLOISTS:   Marino Formenti, piano; Christian Dierstein, percussion

Stockhausen:  Piano Pieces 1-10

Vivier:  Cinq chanson pour percussion