The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s 2009 Summer Concert series comes at the close of the orchestra’s fiftieth anniversary season, and the twelfth and final year of Andreas Delfs tenure as Music Director. While some of these broadcasts will be devoted to highlights of the past year, others will reach back in the archives for some of Maestro Delfs most memorable moments on the podium. Wisconsin Public Radio offers you two opportunities to hear these concerts, Sunday afternoons at 2pm:
- The NPR News & Classical Network: From July 5 through September 27
- WPR's 24 Hour HD2 Classical service:From August 2 through October 25.
(More on our HD2 services)
July 5 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 2)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Daniel Binelli, bandoneon; Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Nathaniel Webster, baritone and the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Piazzolla: Concerto for Bandoneon and Orucestra
Sierra: Missa Latina (Pro Pax)
July 12 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 9)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Andre Watts, piano
Wininsky: Festival Fifty
Brahms: Symphony #3 in F, op. 90
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 in Eb, op. 73 “Emperor”
July 19 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 16)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano; The Milwaukee Symphony Chorus and the Milwaukee Children’s Choir
Mahler: Symphony #3 in d minor
July 26 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 23)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Paul Busselberg, baritone and the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Brahms: Academic Festival Orchestra, op. 80
Brahms: Song of Triumph, op. 55
Brahms: Symphony #1 in c minor, op. 68
August 2 (also available on HD2 Classical on August 30)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Alessandra Marc, soprano; Judith Christin, mezzo-soprano; Malin Fritz, mezzo-soprano; Neil Rosenshein, tenor; Patrick Marques, tenor; David Cangelosi, tenor and Greer Grimsley, baritone
R Strauss: Salome, op. 54
August 9 (also available on HD2 Classical on September 6)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Olga Makarina, soprano; Jill Grove, mezzo-soprano and the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Mahler: Symphony #3 in c minor, “Resurrection”
August 16 (also available on HD2 Classical on September 13)
Andreas Delfs, conductor and accordion
Weil: Little Threepenny Music
Bruckner: Symphony #6 in A
August 23 (also available on HD2 Classical on September 20)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Andrews Sills, piano
Beethoven: Symphony #6 in F, op. 68, “Pastoral”
Antheil: A Jazz Symphony
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
August 30 (also available on HD2 Classical on September 27)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Joseph Johnson, cello
Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, op. 92
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto #1 in a minor, op. 33
Harris: Symphony #3
September 6 (also available on HD2 Classical on October 4)
Andreas Delfs, conductor with Frank Almond, violin
Beethoven: Symphony #3 in Eb, op. 55, “Eroica”
Mozart: Violin Concerto #1 in Bb, K. 207
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
September 13 (also available on HD2 Classical on October 11)
Edo de Waart, conductor with the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
R Strauss: Serenade in Eb, op. 7
R Strauss: Metamorphosen
Holst: The Planets, op. 32
September 20 (also available on HD2 Classical on October 18)
Edo de Waart, conductor with Todd Levy, clarinet
Adams: The Chairman Dances
von Weber: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in Bb, op. 34
Dvorak: Symphony #9 in e minor, op. 95
September 27 (also available on HD2 Classical on October 25)
Edo de Waart, conductor with Sa Chen, piano and Heidi Stober, soprano
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3 in c minor, op. 37
Mahler: Symphony #4 in G
