Program Highlight

ESM tenor Anthony Dean Griffey solos in Mahler's Symphony of A Thousand, NYPO, 5/22 @ 3pm

Classical 91.5 WXXO-FM

Published April 28, 2022 at 10:32 AM EDT

American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey poses in empty performance hall with two Grammy awards

Hailed by the Boston Globe as “an altogether exceptional artist," Rochester's four-time Grammy Award-winning tenor Anthony Dean Griffey has captured popular acclaim on opera, concert and recital stages around the world.

5/1 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (Yefim Bronfman, p; Jaap van Zweden, cond)

5/8 Mozart: Symphony No. 1 Haydn: Piano Concerto No. 11 Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano & Orchestra Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter (Emanuel Ax, p; Jaap van Zweden, cond)

5/15 Brahms: A German Requiem (Ying Fang, s; Matthias Goerne, bar; Concert Chorale of NY; Jaap van Zweden, cond)

5/22 Mahler: Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand (Christine Brewer, Nancy Gustafson and Jeanine De Bique, s; Mary Phillips and Nancy Maultsby, ms; Anthony Dean Griffey, t; Wolfgang Schöne, bs; Jason Grant, bs‐bar; New York Choral Artists; The Dessoff Symphonic Choir; Brooklyn Youth Chorus; Lorin Maazel, cond)

5/29 Phil the Hall Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Mvt 1; Chesky: Rising Stucky: Elegy from August 4, 1964 Bernstein: Overture to Candide Copland: The Promise of Living, from The Tender Land, Hoe-Down, from Rodeo Scocca-Ho: Ociantrose Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre Beethoven: An die Freude, from Symphony No. 9 (Nia Franklin, host; Paloma Dineli Chesky, vocalist; Westminster Symphonic Choir; Joe Miller, dir; Jaap van Zweden, cond)