Mälkki, Liebermann & Mahler 4

January 19, 2025, 8:00 pm

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Susanna Mälkki
Susanna Mälkki (Photo: Simon Fowler)

This week, guest conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the world premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Flute Concerto No. 2, a CSO-commissioned work featuring Principal Flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson. Opening the program is Wagner’s Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin, and closing the program is Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major, featuring soprano Ying Fang. To open the broadcast, we celebrate Mozart’s upcoming 269th birthday with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Overture to The Marriage of Figaro.

Playlist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Daniel Barenboim conductor
1979 (Deutsche Gammophon)

Richard Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin

Lowell Liebermann: Flute Concerto No. 2, Op. 142

Claude Debussy: Syrinx
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson,flute

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Ying Fang, soprano; Susanna Mälkki, conductor