A program for Memorial Day to honor those whose lives have been forever changed by war, including songs written by composers and poets who were soldiers themselves.
Memorial in Song with John Brancy and Peter Dugan
Playlist
*Indicates a composer who served in WWI
Oley Speaks: “When the Boys Come Home”
Ralph Vaughan Williams*: “Youth and Love” from Songs of Travel
George Butterworth*: “The Lads in Their Hundreds” from A Shropshire Lad
Igor Novello* (arr. Dugan/Brancy): “Keep the Homefires Burning”
Walter Donaldson (arr. Dugan/Brancy): “My Buddy”
Wilfred Sanderson: “God Be with Our Boys Tonight”
Charles Ives: “Tom Sails Away”
Leonardo Dugan: “In Flanders Fields”
Maurice Ravel*: Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Claude Debussy: “Noel des enfants qui n’ont plus de maisons”
Sergei Rachmaninoff: “How fair this spot”
Sergei Rachmaninoff: “Spring Waters”
Irving Berlin*: “Goodbye France”
Trad. (arr. Dugan/Brancy): “Danny Boy”
Masterworks for Organ and String Orchestra
Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi leads the Chicago College of Performing Arts Chamber Orchestra in music by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, and Vaughan Williams.
Lyric Opera of Chicago Rising Stars in Concert
A showcase performance by The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center 2022/23 Ensemble with members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra conducted by Roberto Kalb.
The Third Coast Baroque Festival
The period instrument ensemble announces its inaugural festival which will features Aldo López-Gavilán & Ilmar Gavilán, Third Coast Percussion, and a performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass.
Playlist
Gaspar Fernandes: Eso rigor e repente
Claudio Monteverdi: Lidia, spina del mio cor
Third Coast Baroque
Rubén Dubrovsky, conductor, drum, jarana
Aldo López-Gavilán: Pájaro Carpintero (Woodpecker)
Ilmar Gavilán, violin
Aldo López-Gavilán, piano
Philip Glass: Metamorphosis No. 1
Third Coast Percussion
Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin (L’Abbé le fils): Variations on Rameau’s ‘Les Sauvages’
Martin Davids, violin
Giovanni Zamboni: Prelude in C Minor
Brandon Acker, archlute
Johann Sebastian Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
Third Coast Baroque
Rubén Dubrovsky, conductor
Mother’s Day Requests
Celebrate Mother’s Day with WFMT. Honor the mother or mother figure in your life with a spoken dedication and musical request.
Shabbat Shirah – A Celebration of Jewish Community in Chicago
Cantor David Berger, the Hyde Park Jewish Choral Society, and the Rockefeller Chapel Choir share a Shabbat Evening service celebrating the musical heritage of Chicago Judaism.
Playlist
Otto Lob (1834-1908)
Sabbath Hymn
Max Janowski (1912-1991)
Shabbat Hamalkah
Chatzi Kaddish
Hashkiveinu
Aaron David Kaplan (1869-1937)
L’chah Dodi
Poem by Isaac Reingold (1873-1903)
Hama’ariv Aravim – Ponderings at Night
Todros Greenberg (1893-1976)
Ahavat Olam
Robert Applebaum (b. 1941)
Sh’ma Yisra’eil
Debbie Friedman (1915-2011)
Sh’ma and V’ahavta (And You Shall Love)
Heniot Levy (1879-1945) and Max Janowski
Mi Chamochah
David Berger (b. 1980)
V’sham’ru
Hal’luyah!
Jeff Klepper (b. 1954)
Shalom Rav
Hans Wurman (1922-2001)
Yih’yu L’ratzon
Jay O’Brien (b. 1986)
Oseh Shalom
Shulamit Ran (b. 1949)
Yom Hashishi
Joshua Lind (1890-1973)
R’tzeih Vimnuchateinu
Erwin Jospe (1907-1983)
Ashirah Ladonai
Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Music Festival
With principal conductor and artistic director Carlos Kalmar, we look forward to the Grant Park Music Festival’s 2023 season and also relive a July 2022 concert featuring Rachel Barton Pine playing Billy Childs as well as music by Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Agudelo.
Aznavoorian Duo
Cellist Ani Aznavoorian and pianist Marta Aznavoorian present a program celebrating Armenian composers and honoring the duo’s family heritage.
Playlist
All selections performed by the Aznavoorian Duo on May 15, 2022 at Nichols Concert Hall unless otherwise indicated.
Vartabed Komitas (1869–1935)
Chinar Es (You Are Like a Plane Tree)
Tsirani Tsar (Apricot Tree)
Al Ailux (My Scarlet Handkerchief)
Krunk (The Crane)
Arno Babadjanian (1921–1983)
Aria and Dance
Elegy for solo piano
Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
Variations on One String on a Theme by Rossini
Traditional American
Amazing Grace for solo cello
Peter Boyer (b.1970)
Mount Ararat
Serouj Kradjian (b.1973)
Sari Siroun Yar (Beautiful Girl of the Mountain)
Alexander Arutiunian (1920—2012)
Impromptu
Frédéric Chopin (1810—1849)
Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61
Inna Faliks, piano
Recorded October 2022 at Nichols Concert Hall
The 2023 Boston Early Music Festival
Kathleen Fay and Paul O’Dette preview the upcoming operas, concerts, and events of the biennial festival that brings together the finest performers, scholars, and instrument makers who are the vanguard of Baroque performance.
Playlist
Christoph Graupner: Overture from Antiouchus und Stratonica
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, directors
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Psyché
Act V: Prelude for Apollo and chorus of celestial deities
Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Boston Early Music Festival Chorus & Orchestra
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, directors
Agostino Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe
Act I: “Dell alma stanca…Sfere amiche”
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, directors
John Blow: “Welcome ev’ry guest” from Amphion Anglicus, 1700
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, directors
Guillaume Dufay: O tres piteulx
Orlando Consort
Johann Sebastian Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
IV. Glorie, Lob, Ehr und Herrlichkeit
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director
George Frideric Handel: Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428
I. Prelude
II. Allegro
Francesco Corti, harpsichord
Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari: Sonata in A Minor Op 9 No. 3
I. Spiritoso
Stefania Neonato, fortepiano
J.S. Bach: Trio super Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 660
Christa Rakich, organ
Michel Lambert: Vos mépris chaque jour
Les Délices
Debra Nagy, oboe and direction
Luisa Elena Paesano : Gaván con Revuelta (Joropo)
Rumbarroco
Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba and direction
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Ciaccona in A from Serenada in Mascara
Tekla Cunningham, violin
Pacific MusicWorks
Stephen Stubbs, baroque guitar and direction
Giovanni Valentini: Sonata a5 in G Minor
ACRONYM
Juan de Lienas: Tristis est anima mea
Newberry Consort
Ellen Hargis, director
Marin Marais: Gigue la pointilleuse
Philippe Pierlot and Myriam Rignol, viola da gamba
Julien Wolfs, harpsichord
Ludovico Agostini: O dolcezze amarissime
Doulce Mémoire
Pietro Torri: “Son rosignolo” from Ismene
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Stefan Temmingh, recorder
The Gentleman’s Band
Handel: “Iris Hence Away” from Semele
Lucile Richardot, contralto
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe
Act III: Ballo di soldati festeggianti (Chaconne)
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, directors
New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
A survey of the new compendium of recordings of works by 19th century women composers, Compositrices.
Playlist
Mel Bonis: Le Rêve de Cléopâtre
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
Leo Hussain, conductor
Louise Farrenc : Symphonie n°3 in G Minor en sol mineur
I. Adagio. Allegro
Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est; David Reiland, conductor
Nadia Boulanger: Scène 1 from La Sirène
Anaïs Constans, soprano
Aude Extrémo, mezzo-soprano
François Rougier, tenor
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
Leo Hussain, conductor
Henriette Renié : Sonate pour violoncelle et piano
II. Andante
Victor Julien-Laferrière, cello;
Théo Fouchenneret, piano
Marie Jaëll: Les Orientales – Rêverie
Rita Strohl: Bilitis – Berceuse
Cyrille Dubois, tenor
Tristan Raës, piano
Charlotte Sohy: Symphonie en ut dièse mineur
I. Lent. Vif
Orchestre National de France
Débora Waldman, conductor
Cécile Chaminade: Concertino pour flute et orchestra
Claire Le Boulanger, flute
Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est
David Reiland, conductor
Bonis: Barcarolle pour piano
François Dumont, piano
Chaminade: Callirhoé, suite de ballet
I. Prélude
Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est; David Reiland, conductor
