KWAX PROGRAM GUIDE


MAY, 2013 (June Listings Follow Below)


***All KWAX programs are subject to change or delays, especially during fund-raising activities. Please listen to KWAX for information on our daily schedule. KWAX is located at 75         Centennial Loop, Eugene, OR 97401.  Tel: 345-0800 or 1-800-422-4301.


SUNDAY


8 am--THE ORGAN LOFT.  An hour of music for the "king of instruments" with host Roger Sherman.  (Repeated at 6 pm.)

9 am—SUNDAY BAROQUE. Host Suzanne Bona explores the world of Baroque music.  Also at 6am.
    
11 am—WITH HEART AND VOICE. A weekly program of choral music. (Repeated at 7pm).
    
Noon—SYMPHONYCAST.  A series of concerts featuring major European and American orchestras.
    5—Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra: Ravel, La Valse; Golijov, Violin Concerto (Leonidas Kavakos); Shostakovich, Symphony #5.
    12—Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Beethoven, Symphony #2; Symphony #9 (soloists, and Westminster College Choir).
    19—Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: Bernstein, Trouble in Tahiti: Suite; Chris Thile, Mandolin Concerto (Ad Astra per Alas Porci) (Chris Thile); Welch/Rawlings, My Dear Someone (Thile);  Bach, Gigue from Violin Partita in d (Thile); Needham, When We Forget; Copland, Appalachian Spring Suite.
    26—Rossen Milanov conducts the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra: Scarlatti/Shostakovich, Pastorale and Capriccio for Winds, Brass and Timpani; Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony in c, Op. 110a; Prokofiev, Overture on Hebrew Themes; Korngold, Violin Concerto (Steven Copes).
    
 
          
        
2 pm--MY WORD.  A literary panel game from the BBC (repeat of Saturday morning broadcast).
2:30 pm--MY MUSIC.  A musical quiz from the BBC (repeat of Saturday morning broadcast).
                                                        
3 pm--CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  An hour of music for the
classical guitar. Repeated Wednesdays at 5pm.
4 pm—A DISTANT MIRROR. Alan Kelly presents Medieval, Renaissance and Early Baroque Music.                                   
6 pm—THE ORGAN LOFT.  (Repeat of program heard at 8am.)
7 pm—WITH HEART AND VOICE. (Repeat of program heard at 11am.)  
        
                                 

8 pm SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL.  A new season.
    5—Beethoven, String Trio in c, Op. 9/3; Kreisler, String Quartet in a.
    12—Haydn, String Quartet in D, Op. 20/4; Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony #2, Op. 38.
      19—Magnus Lindberg, Acequia Madre; Schubert, “Trout” Quintet in A.
    26—Bach, Keyboard Concerto in g, BWV 1058; Bartok, Violin Sonata #1 (1921).  

10 pm to 6 am--BEETHOVEN SATELLITE NETWORK. Music through the night with Peter Van De Graaff.  
6 am PERFORMANCE TODAY, with host Fred Child. Monday to Saturday.
8 am MONDAY-FRIDAY: EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin.  Repeated at 7 pm.

                                                            
MONDAY

5 pm—SOUNDS CHORAL, hosted by Marjorie Herman.
6 pm—ON THE WIND.  Chamber music for wind instruments.

8 pm-LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW.
    6—125th Anniversary Concert.  Mariss Jansons conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Wagner, Die Meistersinger Overture; Mahler, Orchestral Songs (Thomas Hampson); Prokofiev, Piano Concerto #3 (excerpt, with Lang Lang); Saint-Saens, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Janine Jansen); Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier Suite.  
    13—A Tribute to Sir Colin Davis by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique: Un bal; Haydn, Symphony #104 (London); Dvorak, Cello Concerto in b (Heinrich Schiff);Sibelius, Symphony #6; Stravinsky, The Firebird: Lullaby and Finale.
    20—Riccardo Chailly conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in an all-Stravinsky program.  
    27—Riccardo Chailly conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Henze, Elogium Musicum; Mendelssohn, Symphony #2 (Genia Kuhmeyer; Bernarda Fink; Michael Schade; Netherlands Radio Choir).


TUESDAY


5pm—THE PIANO MATTERS, hosted by David Dubal.
6pm—THE SPANISH HOUR, hosted by Candice Agree.   
8pm-COLLECTOR'S CORNER, with Henry Fogel.
    7—The Music of Gabriel Pierne: Ramuntcho: Suite #1; Piano Concerto; Buttercup: Ballet Suite; Konzertstuck for Harp and Orchestra; L’An Mil.
    14—The Music of Gabriel Pierne: Ramuntcho: Suite #2; Divertissement; March of the Little Tin Soldiers; Fantaisie-Ballet; Paysages; Serenade; Cydalise et le Chevre-pied: Suite #1; Les Cathedrales: Prelude.
    21—A Rare Recording of a Rare Russian Opera. Dargomyshsky, Rusalka.
    28—The Songs of Dmitri Shostakovich.     
    
                                                               
WEDNESDAY


7 PM MAY 29TH—THE RITE OF SPRING: THE 100 YEAR SHOCK-WAVE.  Marking the ballet’s 100th anniversary, this documentary (which features Dame Marie Rambert and Igor Stravinsky, among others) traces the influence of this work from its initial performance on May 29th, 1913 up to the present. Jon Tolansky hosts.                                                         
5 pm—CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE, hosted by Tony Morris.    
6 pm—COMPACT DISCOVERIES, hosted by Fred Flaxman.
 
8 pm—NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK, hosted by Alec Baldwin.
    1—Alan Gilbert conducts: Rouse, Prospero’s Rooms; Bernstein, Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)(Joshua Bell); Ives, Symphony #4.
    8—Alan Gilbert conducts: Mozart, Piano Concerto #25 in C (Emmanuel Ax); Bruckner, Symphony #3.
    15—Masaaki Suzuki conducts, with soloists Joelle Harvey, Iestyn Davies, Nicholas Phan, Tyler Duncan, the chorus of the  Bach Collegium Japan and Yale Schola Cantorum: Bach, Singet dem Herrn; Mendelssohn, Christus; Magnificat in D; Bach, Magnificat.
    22—Alan Gilbert conducts soloists Dorothea Roschmann, Anne-Sofie von Otter, Steve Davislim, Eric Owens, The New York Choral Artists: Bach, Mass in B Minor.
    29—Bernard Labadie conducts an all-Bach program: Orchestral Suite #4; Violin Concerto in E (Isabel Faust); Sinfonia from Cantata #42; Violin Concerto in a (Faust); Orchestral Suite #3.


THURSDAY


5 pm—PLAYED IN OREGON, hosted by Christa Wessel.
6 pm--HARMONIA.  A one-hour program devoted to early music.
8 pm—THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA. A new season.
    2—James Feddeck conducts: Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Suite; Mozart, Bassoon Concerto, K. 191 (John Clouser); Berlioz, Romeo and Juliet: Love Scene; Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe: Suite #2.
    9—Franz Welser-Most conducts: Beethoven, Symphony #4 in B-flat, Op. 60; Grosse Fuge in B-flat, Op. 133; Pintscher, Chute d’Etoiles (Michael Sachs and Jack Sutte, trumpets); Scriabin, The Poem of Ecstasy (Symphony #4).
    16—Pinchas Steinberg conducts: Rimsky-Korsakov, Le Coq d’Or: Suite; Tchaikovsky, Francesca da Rimini; Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky (Sasha Cooke and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus).
     23—Franz Welser-Most conducts: Mahler, Symphony #3 (Bernarda Fink; U of Miami Frost Symphonic Women’s Chorus and Miami Children’s Choir).                                                    30—Jaap van Zweden conducts: Chopin, Piano Concerto #2 in f, Op. 21 (Louis Lortie); Rachmaninoff, Symphony #2 in e, Op. 27.

 
FRIDAY


5 pm—PICTURE PERFECT.  Film Music with Ross Amico.  
6 pm--MILLENIUM OF MUSIC.  A program of early music hosted by Robert Aubry Davis.
    
8 pm—SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY. A new season.
    3—Semyon Bychkov conducts: Strauss, Don Juan; Burleske for Piano and Orchestra (Kirill Gerstein); Schumann, Symphony #2. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts: Shostakovich, Symphony #9.
    10—Michael Tilson Thomas conducts: Schubert, Overture to Alfonso and Estrella; Schubert, Piano Quintet in A (Trout)(soloists from the orchestra with pianist Juho Pohjonen); Schubert/Mahler, Quartet in d (Death and the Maiden); Symphony #8 (Unfinished).
    17—Michael Tilson Thomas conducts: Schutz, Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock (SFS Chorus); Brahms, A German Requiem (Jane Archibald and Kyle Ketelsen with SFS Chorus); Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms (with SFS Chorus).
24—Michael Tilson Thomas conducts: Wagner, Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III; Brahms, Violin Concerto (Gil Shaham); Brahms/Schoenberg, Piano Quartet #1 in g, Op. 25; Brahms, Variations on a Theme of Haydn.
31—Esa Pekka-Salonen conducts: Sibelius, Pohjola’s Daughter; Salonen, Violin Concerto (Leila Josefowicz); Wagner, Gotterdammerung excerpts (Christine Brewer, soprano). Michael Tilson Thomas conducts: Schoenberg, Five Pieces for Orchestra.

 
SATURDAY


9:00am-MY WORD. (repeated Sunday at 2pm).
9:30 am--MY MUSIC. (repeated Sunday at 2:30pm).
    
10:00am METROPOLITAN OPERA.
    4—Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmelites.
****    11—Wagner, Gotterdammerung. Starts at 9am. (Season finale).

     18—LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO. Season debut.
        Verdi, Simon Boccanegra.
    25—Massenet, Werther.  
2 pm—THE SPANISH HOUR, hosted by Candice Agree.
3 pm--PLAYED IN OREGON. Performances recorded around the state.
4 pm—THE LOST CHORD, hosted by Ross Amico.  Lost or forgotten musical gems.
5 pm—INDIVISIBLE BY 4, hosted by Carl Hemmingsen, featuring chamber music.
6 pm THE PIANO MATTERS, hosted by David Dubal.
7 pm—HALF PAST, hosted by Carl Hemmingsen, features music from the past half-century.  
                           
                  
                                                         
8pm--CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
    4—Christian Macelaru conducts: Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Bartok, Piano Concerto #2 (Yefim Bronfman); Divertimento for String Orchestra; Stravinsky, The Song of the Nightingale. Ton Koopman conducts: Haydn, Symphony #6 in D (Le Matin).
    11—Riccardo Muti conducts: Honegger, Pacific 231; Mason Bates, Alternative Energy; Franck, Symphony in d; Mozart, Symphony #35, K. 385 (Haffner); Divertimento, K. 138.
    18—Manfred Honeck conducts: J. Strauss, Overture to Die Fledermaus; Beethoven, Piano Concerto #1 (Till Fellner); Dvorak, Symphony #8; Haydn, Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat (soloists from the orchestra); Beethoven, Overture to Fidelio.
    25—Ascher Fischer conducts: Wagner, Siegfried Idyll; Schoenberg, Violin Concerto (Michael Barenboim); Mahler, Adagio from Symphony #10; Wagner, Prelude to Parsifal; Bach/Koopman, Concerto in C from BWV 1064 (soloists from the orchestra).






KWAX PROGRAM GUIDE

JUNE, 2013


***All KWAX programs are subject to change or delays, especially during fund-raising activities. Please listen to KWAX for information on our daily schedule. KWAX is located at 75         Centennial Loop, Eugene, OR 97401.  Tel: 345-0800 or 1-800-422-4301.


SUNDAY

8 am--THE ORGAN LOFT.  An hour of music for the "king of instruments" with host Roger Sherman.  (Repeated at 6 pm.)

9 am—SUNDAY BAROQUE. Host Suzanne Bona explores the world of Baroque music.  Also at 6am.
    
11 am—WITH HEART AND VOICE. A weekly program of choral music. (Repeated at 7pm).
    
Noon—SYMPHONYCAST.  A series of concerts featuring major European and American orchestras.
    2—Christoph von Dohnanyi conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra:   Beethoven, Leonore Overture #3; Symphony #6 (Pastoral); Symphony #5.
    9—Osmo Vanska conducts the Minnesota Orchestra: Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem; Stravinsky, Violin Concerto (Viktoria Mullova); Beethoven, Symphony #8.
    16—Osmo Vanska conducts the Minnesota Orchestra: Kernis, Air; Beethoven, Piano Concerto #1 (Yevgeny Sudbin); Sibelius, Symphony #2.
    23—Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic: Mozart, Overture to the Marriage of Figaro; Peteris Vasks, Distant Light; Mozart, Posthorn Serenade.
    30—Robert Spano conducts the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra: Higdon, All Things Majestic; Barber, Piano Concerto, Op. 38 (Garrick Ohlsson); Copland, Symphony #3.
        
 
          
        
2 pm--MY WORD.  A literary panel game from the BBC (repeat of Saturday morning broadcast).
2:30 pm--MY MUSIC.  A musical quiz from the BBC (repeat of Saturday morning broadcast).
                                                        
3 pm--CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  An hour of music for the
classical guitar. Repeated Wednesdays at 5pm.
4 pm—A DISTANT MIRROR. Alan Kelly presents Medieval, Renaissance and Early Baroque Music.                                   
6 pm—THE ORGAN LOFT.  (Repeat of program heard at 8am.)
7 pm—WITH HEART AND VOICE. (Repeat of program heard at 11am.)                                                
                                                           
                                                

8 pm SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL.   
    2—Oliver Knussen, Songs for Sue from Requiem, Op. 33; Dohnanyi, Piano Quintet #1 in c.
    9—Paganini, Caprices for solo violin: #1 and #7; Helen Grime, Snow and Snow for Clarinet, Viol and Piano; Amy Beach, Piano Quintet in f#, Op. 67; Gershwin/Wild, Somebody Loves Me; I Got Rhythm.  
    16—Bartok, Contrasts; Brahms, Piano Trio #2, Op. 87.
    23—Bach, Piano Concerto #5, in f, BWV 1056 (Inon Barnatan); Oliver Knussen, Ophelia’s Last Dance (Kirill Gerstein, piano); Ravel, String Quartet in F (Tokyo String Quartet).
    30-Schubert, String Quintet in C (Tokyo String Quartet and Lynn Harrell).    

10 pm to 7 am--BEETHOVEN SATELLITE NETWORK. Music through the night with Peter Van De Graaff.  
7 am PERFORMANCE TODAY, with host Fred Child. Monday to Saturday.


MONDAY

5 pm—SOUNDS CHORAL, hosted by Marjorie Herman.
6 pm—ON THE WIND.  Chamber music for wind instruments.
7 pm—EXPLORING MUSIC, with Bill McGlaughlin.
8 pm-LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW. The Royal Concertebouw Orchestra in concert.
    3—Mariss Jansons conducts: Mahler’s Symphony #8 (soloists include Christine Brewer and Camilla Nylund, with multiple choruses)(Symphony of a Thousand).
    10—Vladimir Jurowski conducts: Brahms, Piano Concerto #2 (Alexander Gavrylyuk); Zemlinsky, Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid).
    17—Herbert Blomstedt conducts: Beethoven, Piano Concerto #4 (Hannes Minnaar); Nielsen, Symphony #5.
    24—The RCO Beethoven Tradition.

TUESDAY

5pm—THE PIANO MATTERS, hosted by David Dubal.
6pm—THE SPANISH HOUR, hosted by Candice Agree.
7pm—EXPLORING MUSIC, with Bill McGlaughlin.
   
8pm-COLLECTOR'S CORNER, with Henry Fogel.
    4—The Art of Pianist Nelson Freire, Part 1.
    11—The Art of Pianist Nelson Freire, Part 2.
    18—The Clemens Krauss Ring, Part 1.
    25—The Clemens Krauss Ring, Part 2.     
 
                                                               
WEDNESDAY

5 pm—CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE, hosted by Tony Morris.    
6 pm—COMPACT DISCOVERIES, hosted by Fred Flaxman.
7 pm—EXPLORING MUSIC, with Bill McGlaughlin.
 
8 pm—NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK, hosted by Alec Baldwin.
    5—Andras Schiff, conductor and soloist: Bach, Keyboard Concerto in f; Mendelssohn, String Symphony #9; Bach, Keyboard Concerto in D; Schumann, Symphony #4.
    12—Alan Gilbert conducts: Stravinsky, Ragtime for 11 Instruments; Shostakovich, Tahiti Trot; Copland, Clarinet Concerto (Marc Nuccio); Wynton Marsalis, Swing Symphony (Symphony #3) (Marsalis, trumpet, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra).
    19—Alan Gilbert conducts: Prokofiev, Violin Concerto #1 (Lisa Batiashvili); Dallapiccola, Il Prigioniero (soloists include Patricia Racette, Gerald Finley; The Collegiate Chorale).
    26—Lionel Bringuier conducts: Dukas, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Prokofiev, Violin Concerto #2 (Leonidas Kagakos); Kodaly, Dances of Galanta; Stravinsky, Firebird Suite.     
 
                                                      

THURSDAY

5 pm—PLAYED IN OREGON, hosted by Christa Wessel.
6 pm--HARMONIA.  A one-hour program devoted to early music.
7 pm—EXPLORING MUSIC, with Bill McGlaughlin.

8 pm—THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA. A new season.
    6—Giancarlo Guerrero conducts: Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Bela Fleck, Banjo Concerto (Fleck); Copland, Billy the Kid Suite; Gershwin, An American in Paris.
    13—James Gaffigan conducts: Wagner, Prelude to Act III of Tristan und Isolde; Chopin, Piano Concerto #1, in e, Op. 11 (Daniil Trifonov); Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet Suite.
    20—Franz Welser-Most conducts: Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D (Joshua Bell); Shostakovich, Symphony #10 in e.
    27—Franz Welser-Most conducts: Beethoven, Piano Concerto #4 in G (Garrick Ohlsson); Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique.  

 
FRIDAY

5 pm—PICTURE PERFECT.  Film Music with Ross Amico.  
6 pm--MILLENIUM OF MUSIC.  A program of early music hosted by Robert Aubry Davis.
7 pm—EXPLORING MUSIC, with Bill McGlaughlin.
    
8 pm—SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.  
    7—Michael Tilson Thomas conducts:   Liszt, Prometheus; Ligeti, Violin Concerto (Christian Tetzlaff); Tchaikovsky, Symphony #1 (Winter Daydreams); Michael Tilson Thomas, Street Song for Symphonic Brass.
    14—Pablo Heras-Casado conducts: Stravinsky, Dumbarton Oaks Concerto; Ravel, Piano Concerto in G (Katia Buniatishvili_; Dallapiccola, Piccola musica notturno; Falla, El amor brujo (Marina Heredia, flamenco singer). Michael Tilson Thomas conducts: Schumann, Symphony #1 (Spring).
    21—Pinchas Zukerman conductor, violinist, violist: Mozart, Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra, K. 261; Rondo in C for Violin and Orchestra, K. 373; Hindemith, Trauermusik for Viola and Orchestra; Mozart, Violin Concerto #3 (K. 216); Symphony #40 in g, K. 550.   Michael Tilson Thomas conducts: Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings, Op. 48.
    28—Herbert Blomstedt conducts: Mozart, Piano Concerto #9, K. 271 (Garrick Ohlsson); Tchaikovsky, Symphony #5, Op. 64; Sibelius, Symphony #3.     


SATURDAY

9:00am-MY WORD. (repeated Sunday at 2pm).
9:30 am--MY MUSIC. (repeated Sunday at 2:30pm).
    
10:00amLYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO. Season debut.
    1—Donizetti, Don Pasquale.
    8—Double Bill: Strauss, Elektra; and Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel.
    15—Puccini, La Boheme.
    22—Wagner, Die Meistersinger.
    29—Verdi, Rigoletto.  
 
2 pm—THE SPANISH HOUR, hosted by Candice Agree.
3 pm--PLAYED IN OREGON. Performances recorded around the state.
4 pm—THE LOST CHORD, hosted by Ross Amico.  Lost or forgotten musical gems.
5 pm—INDIVISIBLE BY 4, hosted by Carl Hemmingsen, featuring chamber music.
6 pm THE PIANO MATTERS, hosted by David Dubal.
7 pm—HALF PAST, hosted by Carl Hemmingsen, features music from the past half-century.  
                            
                   
8pm--CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
    1—Sir Mark Elder conducts: Delius, The Walk to the Paradise Garden; Elgar, Falstaff; Rimsky-Korsakov, The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh; Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Overture. Robert Spano conducts: Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.
    8—Mitsuko Uchida conducts Mozart from the keyboard:  Stravinsky, Concerto for Strings in D; Mozart, Piano Concerto #18, K. 456; Adagio and Fugue in c, K. 546; Piano Concerto #9 and #11, K. 271 and 413.
    15—Riccardo Muti conducts: Bach, Mass in B Minor (Eleonora Buratto; Anna Malavasi; Saimir Pirqu; Adam Plachetka; CSO Chorus).
    22—Riccardo Muti conducts: Smirnov, Space Odyssey; Schubert, Symphony #3 in D; Orff, Carmina Burana (Maria Grazia Schiavo; Max Emmanuel Cenci, countertenor; Stephane Degout); Haydn, Symphony #39 in g.
    29—Semyon Bychkov conducts: Poulenc, Two-Piano Concerto in d (Katya and Marielle Labeque); Strauss; Ein Heldenleben.   David Robertson conducts: Brahms, Symphony #4 in e.