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WOSU 89.7 Classically Columbus
WOSU 89.7 is proud to host the first season of live broadcasts of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Saturday nights from the Ohio Theatre in downtown Columbus. Christopher Purdy hosts each broadcast, offering commentary and background on the works as well as conversations with CSO players and conductors during intermission. “Nothing beats being there to hear great music,” Christopher says, “but a live broadcast is a close second. We have the best engineers in place to present this marvelous orchestra to a huge public. Many of us have hoped for years to present the Columbus Symphony live, nearly every week… this is it!”
Here is the LIVE broadcast schedule (subject to change):
Saturday, January 6 at 8 pm
Stefan Sanderling, conductor
Luis Biava, CSO Principal Cello
Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
Saturday, January 27 at 8 pm
Peter Stafford Wilson, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
Debussy: Prelude to The Afternoon of a Fawn
Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss (1949)
Rouse: The Nevill Feast
Gershwin: Concerto for Piano in F Major
Saturday, February 3 at 8 pm
Gunther Schuller, conductor
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Dvorak: Nocturne for Strings
Schuller: Four Soundscapes ( Hudson Valley Reminiscences)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Saturday, February 24 at 8 pm
Junichi Hirokami, conductor
Charles Wetherbee, violin (CSO Concertmaster)
Takemitsu: Requiem for Strings
Saint-Säens: Violin Concerto No. 3
Ravel: Tzigane
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Saturday, March 3 at 8 pm
Günther Herbig, conductor
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1
Saturday, March 24 at 8 pm
Junichi Hirokami, conductor
CSO Chorus and Guest Soloists
Haydn: The Seasons
Saturday, April 14 at 8 pm
William Eddins, conductor
Colin Currie, percussion (CSO performance debut)
Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Higdon: Percussion Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Saturday, May 5 at 8 pm
James Gaffigan, conductor (CSO performance debut)
Ingrid Fliter, piano (CSO performance debut)
Fauré: Suite from Pelléas and Mélisande
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major
Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
Saturday, May 12 at 8 pm
Günther Herbig, conductor
Andrew Armstrong, piano (CSO performance debut)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Saturday, June 2 at 8 pm
Junichi Hirokami, conductor
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
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  Sir Gilbert Levine conducts a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, recorded in Cologne Cathedral during the 2005 World Youth Day celebrations in Germany. This was the first time that Missa Solemnis, Beethoven’s monumental spiritual masterpiece, had ever been performed in Cologne Cathedral, Germany’s most famous church and home cathedral of Beethoven, who was a native of Bonn, just down the river Rhine from Cologne. The performance features soloists Bozena Harasimowicz, Monica Groop, Jerry Hadley, and Franz-Josef Selig, with the London Philharmonic Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. more... |
