Program Highlight

Brooklyn-based composer Missy Mazzoli's double bass concerto on SymphonyCast (7/29 @ 8p)

Classical 91.5 WXXO-FM

Published June 29, 2022 at 1:13 PM EDT

composer Missy Mazzoli stands in front of a rustic brick wall, wearing a pink shirt and floral jacket — CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli.

A musicians’ strike scuttled Missy Mazzoli's CSO debut of a new arrangement of her double bass concerto “Dark with Excessive Bright” (2018), but we can hear it this month on SymphonyCast.

7/1 David Felder: Die Dammerungen Korngold: Violin Concerto Weber: Invitation to the Dance Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (James Ehnes, v; Buffalo Philharmonic; JoAnn Falletta, cond)

7/8 Bates: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release Montgomery: Banner Jimmy Lopez Bellido: Techno from Fiesta! Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, From the New World (Lakes Area Music Festival Orchestra; Christian Reif, cond)

7/15 Elgar: Cello Concerto Bacharach: I Say a Little Prayer for You Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2 (Sheku Kanneh-Mason, C; German Symphony Orchestra; Stephane Deneve, cond)

7/22 Stravinsky: Scherzo Fantastique, Violin Concerto, The Firebird (Leonidas Kavakos, v; Houston Symphony; Andres Orozco-Estrada, cond)

7/29 Honegger: Pastoral d’ete for Chamber Orchestra Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright Schubert: Symphony No. 5 (Zachary Cohen, dbl bs; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Ruth Reinhardt, cond)