Itzhak Perlman, Lisa Batiashvili and Anne?Sophie Mutter all perform violin concertos this month on The New York Philharmonic. We'll hear from Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Mozart, Sundays at 3pm on WXXI Classical.
8/1 Stravinsky: Les Noces, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, The Firebird (Valery Gergiev, cond)
8/8 Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Gruber: Aeriel Mozart: Symphony No. 25 Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Hakan Hardenberger, tr; Alan Gilbert, cond)
8/15 R. Strauss: Don Juan Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Dutilleux: Metaboles Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (Itzhak Perlman, v; Alan Gilbert, cond)
8/22 Lindberg: Arena Sibelius: Violin Concerto Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (Lisa Batiashvili, v; Alan Gilbert, cond)
8/29 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 Rihm: Lichtes Spiel Mozart: Violin Concerto Nos. 1 and 5 (Anne?Sophie Mutter, v and cond; Michael Francis, cond)
