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Violinist Benjamin Schmid, pianist Ariane Haering and music director Hans Graf talk about Debussy’s La Mer and Concertos by Mendelssohn and Paganini-Kreisler. |
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Houston Symphony: "Belshazzar's Feast" Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu and American baritone Stephen Powell talk about Belshazzar’s Feast, English composer William Walton’s cantata that portrays the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. |
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Houston Symphony: "Tchaikovsky's Pathetique" Music director Hans Graf talks about the works by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky that the Houston Symphony performs on its all-Russian concerts. |
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Hans Graf and Anthony Brandt discuss Alban Berg’s rarely-performed opera Wozzeck. |
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Guest conductor Gilbert Varga and violinist Vilde Frang talk about the Valentine’s Day concerts they’re performing with the Houston Symphony. The program includes Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and excerpts from Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet score. |
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Houston Symphony Picks New Director Andres Orozco-Estrada Houston Public Radio spoke with a number of the principal players who were present at the Symphony’s news conference announcing the appointment of its new director, 35 year-old Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Our producer Bob Stevenson compiled some of their comments into this report. |
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Houston Symphony music director Hans Graf, principal English horn-player Adam Dinitz, and first-chair trumpeter Mark Hughes, talk about this weekend’s “Access”and Classical Series concerts, which feature Aaron Copland’s evocative tone-poem Quiet City and Antonín Dvorák’s popular “From the New World.” |
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Houston Symphony: "Beethoven & Liszt" Guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard and piano soloist Stephen Hough share some insiders’ insights about two Houston Symphony concerts that include an overture by Beethoven, a piano concerto by Liszt, and a symphony by Danish composer Carl Nielsen. |
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Houston Symphony: "Symphonie Fantastique" Houston Symphony guest-conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada and principal horn-player William VerMeulen chat about Hector Berlioz’s epic journey of unrequited love, the Symphonie Fantastique, and about Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto Number One. |
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Theater District Open House: Houston Symphony Aurelie Desmarais, the Houston Symphony’s senior director of artistic planning, details some of the highlights of the orchestra’s 2012-2013 season, which will be its last under the musical direction of Hans Graf. |
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Houston Symphony: "Oz With Orchestra" Producer John Goberman chats about his “Symphonic Cinema” multimedia performance program Oz With Orchestra, in which the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz is shown in a concert hall, while a full-sized orchestra accompanies the on-screen dialogue, singing and action with a live performance of the film’s original symphonic score. |
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Music director Hans Graf tells us about the concerts that the Houston Symphony is playing in Moscow. Our hometown band is the first American orchestra ever invited to participate in Russia’s annual Festival of the World’s Symphony Orchestras. |
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Houston Symphony - Hilary Hahn & Alexander Shelley Violin superstar, Hilary Hahn, and guest conductor, Alexander Shelley, chat about this weekend’s Houston Symphony concerts, which feature an all-early-20th-century program, including Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Elgar's Enigma Variations. |
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Houston Symphony - Conductor Vasily Petrenko & Violinist Chloe Hanslip British violinist, Chloë Hanslip, and Russian maestro, Vasily Petrenko, preview this weekend’s Houston Symphony concerts, which include Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. |
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Houston Symphony Pops - Bowfire Artistic Director Lenny Solomon and two other members of the group, Bowfire, demonstrate their incredible levels of fiddle and violin virtuosity in just about ANY style of music, from classical to Texas swing! Bowfire performs with the Houston Symphony Pops this weekend at Jones Hall. |
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Houston Symphony - Conductor John Storgards & Percussionist Colin Currie Percussionist Colin Currie [pictured] introduces us to Incantations for Percussion and Orchestra, a piece by contemporary Finnish composer, Einojuhani Rautavaara, which Mr. Currie performs this weekend with the Houston Symphony. Guest conductor, John Storgårds, talks about the Brahms Overture and the Beethoven Symphony that are also included on this weekend’s Jones Hall concerts. |
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Houston Symphony - Orbit: An HD Odyssey We preview the World Première of the second concert-film in the Houston Symphony’s HD Odyssey series! Astronomer and film-maker, Duncan Copp, describes the video he has assembled from NASA's high-definition digital images of Earth, and guest conductor, Giancarlo Guerrero [pictured], talks about the music that the Symphony will perform live to accompany the film, including Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. |
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Houston Symphony - Conductor Jakub Hrusa We chat with Czech conductor, Jakub Hrusa, who leads the Houston Symphony and Chorus this weekend in a Czech-inspired, folk-flavored program that includes works by Dvorák, Borodin and Janácek. |
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Houston Symphony - Bruckner's Ninth Symphony Music Director Hans Graf describes the many musical joys to be discovered by players and audience members alike when he and the Houston Symphony present Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9, this evening at downtown Houston’s Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. |
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Houston Symphony - RachFest Final Weekend Pianist Kirill Gerstein and Music Director Hans Graf look ahead to the final concert of the Houston Symphony’s 2012 Rachmaninoff Festival. That concluding RachFest program features the composer’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Symphony No. 3, coming up Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at Jones Hall. |
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Houston Symphony - RachFest Weekend 2 Pianist Kirill Gerstein [pictured] and Music Director Hans Graf preview the second weekend of RachFest, the Houston Symphony’s total immersion into the piano concertos and symphonic works of Russian master, Sergei Rachmaninoff! The next program plunges into the depths of his Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 and his tone-poem, Isle of the Dead, January 13 - 15 at Jones Hall. |
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Houston Symphony - RachFest with Kirill Gerstein & Edward Gardner Pianist Kirill Gerstein [pictured] and guest conductor Edward Gardner preview the Houston Symphony’ RachFest, three weekends of total immersion in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s knuckle-busting piano concertos and other symphonic masterpieces! Our guests talk about taking on the notorious Piano Concerto No. 3 and his Symphonic Dances for RachFest’s opening weekend. |
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Houston Symphony - Conductor Christian Knapp & Handel's "Messiah" Guest conductor Christian Knapp talks about the Houston Symphony and Chorus’s annual candle-lit presentation of Handel’s Messiah, coming up this weekend at Jones Hall. |
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Houston Symphony Pops - A Linda Eder Christmas We chat with Broadway and pop singer, Linda Eder, who returns to the Bayou City to perform with the Houston Symphony! The concert, A Linda Eder Christmas, features holiday favorites and songs from her latest CD, tonight at Jones Hall. |
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Houston Symphony - Christoph Eschenbach & Mahler's 5th We welcome back to the city an old musical friend: Houston Symphony Conductor Emeritus, Christoph Eschenbach. He leads the orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 tonight at Jones Hall. It’s Maestro Eschenbach’s first appearance with the Houston Symphony since his term as Music Director ended in 1999. |
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Houston Symphony - Vivaldi's Four Seasons Houston Symphony Associate Concertmaster, Eric Halen [pictured], Bayou City actor, Jim Johnson and guest conductor, Cristian Macelaru, talk about the multi-media concert, Beyond the Score. The program tells the stories behind Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and features a complete performance of that famous set of violin concertos! |
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Houston Symphony - Music Director Hans Graf Music Director, Hans Graf, shares his insights on this weekend’s Houston Symphony program, which features Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 with soloist Emanuel Ax, Tchaikovsky’s "Polish" Symphony and Last Round by Osvaldo Golijov. |
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Houston Symphony - Guest conductor Christoph Koenig Conductor Christoph Koenig previews this weekend’s Houston Symphony Classical Series concerts, which include a new piece by Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian, a mass by Franz Schubert and a symphony by Johannes Brahms! |
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Houston Symphony - Conductor Gilbert Varga & Cellist Daniel Mueller-Schott Guest conductor, Gilbert Varga [pictured], and the acclaimed German cellist, Daniel Mueller-Schott, tell us about the pieces by Haydn and Ravel that they’ll be performing with the Houston Symphony. |
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Houston Symphony - Andre Watts & David Afkham Piano legend, André Watts, and rising young German conductor, David Afkham, talk about the program of masterpieces by Schubert and Beethoven that they perform with the Houston Symphony this weekend in Jones Hall. |
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Houston Symphony - Hans Graf & Olga Kern Music Director, Hans Graf, and international piano sensation, Olga Kern, talk about the pieces by Christopher Rouse, Franz Liszt and Richard Strauss that they’ll perform with the Houston Symphony this weekend at Jones Hall! |
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Houston Symphony - Hans Graf, Pierre Jalbert & James Ehnes We preview this weekend's Houston Symphony concerts with Music Director Hans Graf; with composer Pierre Jalbert, who's written a World Premiere for the program; and with violinist James Ehnes [pictured], who's playing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the orchestra! |
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Houston Symphony Music Director, Hans Graf, previews the orchestra’s season-opening performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, set for Friday night and Saturday at Jones Hall. |
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Houston Symphony's 2011 - 2012 Season Senior Director of Artistic Planning, Aurelie Desmarais, previews the Houston Symphony’s new concert season, which features such guest-stars as violinists, James Ehnes and Hilary Hahn, and pianists, Jon Kimura Parker, André Watts and Emmanuel Ax! |
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Houston Symphony - Howard Shore talks about "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" We chat with film composer, Howard Shore, about his Academy Award-winning score for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The Houston Symphony screens that full-length film, and accompanies the cinematic action with a live performance of the score, Friday and Saturday night at Jones Hall! |
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Houston Symphony - Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Rebel-heroes battle ancient forces of evil that have taken control of the magical, crystalline alternate worlds that they inhabit ... while the Houston Symphony accompanies their adventures with a live musical soundtrack! Conductor Arnie Roth chats about the video-game, multi-media concert, Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy. |
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Houston Symphony - "Summer Symphony Nights" at Miller Outdoor Theatre Young American conductor, Joshua Weilerstein, and pianist, Benjamin Hochman preview tomorrow night's Houston Symphony Summer Symphony Nights concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre, which features Dvorak's Symphony Number 8 and Mozart's Piano Concerto Number 23. |
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Music Director Hans Graf and cello soloist Alisa Weilerstein [pictured] talk about Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 and Dvorák's Cello Concerto, the two Romantic-era masterpieces featured on this season's final Houston Symphony Classical Series concerts. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf tells us about Deryck Cooke’s completed version of Gustav Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony, which the Houston Symphony performs this coming weekend at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Mezzo-soprano soloist, Jane Dutton, and guest conductor, Mark Wigglesworth, preview this weekend’s Houston Symphony concerts, featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s dramatic cantata, Alexander Nevsky, Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and the Prelude to Richard Wagner’s opera, Parsifal... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Guest conductor, Kirill Karabits, and violin soloist, Leila Josefowicz, talk about this weekend's Houston Symphony concerts, which include Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony and the Sibelius Violin Concerto... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We chat with guest conductor, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and Principal Flutist, Aralee Dorough, who preview this weekend's Houston Symphony concerts, pairing Mozart's Flute Concerto No.2 with Rimsky-Korsakov's exotic fantasy, Scheherazade... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf previews this weekend's all-Richard Strauss Houston Symphony concerts, opening tonight in Jones Hall. The Maestro is joined in conversation by soprano Erin Wall, who is featured in Strauss's Four Last Songs and the Orchestra's principal cellist, Brinton Averil Smith, one of the soloists in the Symphonic Poem, Don Quixote... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We speak with conductor Juanjo Mena and pianist Gabriela Montero, the featured guest artists on this weekend's Houston Symphony concerts, which include legendary works by Rachmaninoff and Mozart... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Guest conductor James Gaffigan and piano soloist Jonathan Biss preview this week's Houston Symphony concerts, in which they join forces with the orchestra for Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto and Symphonies by Dvorák and Ives... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf talks about the Houston Symphony's all-Ravel program, featuring the composer's one-act comic opera, The Spanish Hour which the Orchestra will perform with mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer and some of her students from the Shepherd School of Music this weekend at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony World-renowned violinist, Gil Shaham, and Houston Symphony Music Director, Hans Graf, preview the program of William Walton's Violin Concerto, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, that they and the Orchestra perform this weekend in Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Danish Maestro Thomas Dausgaard talks about the Verdi Requiem, which he'll conduct with the Houston Symphony and Chorus in performances this weekend at Jones Hall.. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We meet guest conductor, Juraj Valcuha, and piano soloist, Inon Barnatan, who tell us about this weekend's Houston Symphony performances of works by Szymanowski, Mozart and Tchaikovsky... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Canadian jazz-pop vocalist, Matt Dusk, chats about The Music of Frank Sinatra, which he performs with the Houston Symphony on Pops Concerts this weekend at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Today, rising young English conductor, Matthew Halls, talks about his interpretation of George Frideric Handel's Oratorio, Messiah, which he leads in performances by the Houston Symphony and Chorus, tomorrow night through Sunday at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops Houston Symphony Principal Pops conductor Michael Krajewski tells us about Dan Menendez, "The Piano Juggler" and about Karolju, a set of original Christmas carols by contemporary American composer, Christopher Rouse, both make their Bayou City debuts on the Symphony's Very Merry Pops program... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We meet Lawrence Siegel, composer of a monumental new choral symphony, Kaddish: I Am Here which chronicles, in their own words, the heroic journeys of fifteen survivors of the Holocaust, including four who live here in the Bayou City. The Houston Symphony and Chorus present the work's World Premiere, tomorrow night in a special concert at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We meet German violinist and 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner, Augustin Hadelich, who performs this week with the Houston Symphony. He and Music Director Hans Graf preview the program of Ravel, Chausson, Bartok and Brahms, that they'll present tonight, Saturday and Sunday at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Renowned Finnish conductor, Hannu Lintu (pictured), previews this weekend's Houston Symphony performances of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony and Markus Groh talks about making his local debut as soloist in Liszt's Piano Concerto Number One on that same program... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops Trumpeter Chris Botti, previews the program of love songs, movie themes and old standards he's performing this weekend with the Houston Symphony Pops... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf previews this weekend's blockbuster program of Schubert and Mendelssohn! |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Violin superstar Joshua Bell talks about performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, including his own cadenzas, with the Houston Symphony this weekend! |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf talks about conductor Lorin Maazel's concert-length orchestral synthesis of themes from Wagner's monumental cycle of music-dramas, the Ring of the Niebelung. That piece forms the bulk of the content of this weekend's Houston Symphony Classical Series concerts at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf talks about the Houston Symphony's first classical-series concert of the new season! It's this weekend's all-Russian program with guest pianist Yefim Bronfman featured in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf previews the Houston Symphony's Opening Night program, A Vienna Soiree! The program of gems by Johann Strauss, Junior, and Mozart features the Bayou City debut of the Symphony's new concertmaster, Frank Huang (pictured), and takes place tomorrow night at Jones Hall, with a live broadcast on KUHF... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops The Houston Symphony's Principal Pops Conductor, Michael Krajewski, chats with us about Broadway Rocks!, a concert of show-stopping numbers from recent hit musicals like Wicked, Jersey Boys and Rent. It opens the Symphony Pops season, tonight at the Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands and this weekend at Jones Hall... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Grammy-Award-winning conductor, Arnie Roth, chats with Chris Johnson about the music that Japanese composer, Nobuo Uematsu, wrote for the popular Final Fantasy video games, as he previews Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Today we meet young Russian-American pianist, Konstantin Soukhovetski, Second-Prize winner in this year's Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition. We have a brief chat with this accomplished, Juilliard-trained musician... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony We meet clarinetist Stanislav Golovin, a native of Uzbekistan who is studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Golovin was the Gold Medalist in this year's Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition and KUHF's St. John Flynn chats with him backstage at the competition. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Today, we meet 25 year-old, Los-Angeles-born cellist Bronwyn Banerdt. She took home the Fourth Prize in the 35th annual Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition, held three weeks ago at Rice University. Ms. Banerdt, a graduate of both the University of Southern California and the Curtis Institute, talks about her music and her career so far with KUHF's St. John Flynn. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Grammy Award-nominated violin prodigy, Caroline Goulding, plays excerpts from Max Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy," which she'll be performing with the Houston Symphony! Maestro Robert Franz joins her in the studio to chat about that concert. |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Pops The Houston Symphony’s Principal Pops Conductor, Michael Krajewski, talks about Cirque de la Symphonie, this weekend’s Jones Hall concerts that combine exhilarating classical favorites with the daring feats of live aerial artists, strongmen and a hand-balancer... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Today we chat with Houston Symphony Music Director, Hans Graf, and one of the world’s great pianists, Garrick Ohlsson about this weekend’s Houston Symphony Classical Series Concerts, which conclude the Orchestra’s season with two blockbuster pieces: Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring... |
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The Front Row - Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf previews this week’s Houston Symphony concerts, featuring Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Poulenc’s Gloria and Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony... |
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Tune in Wednesdays at 8pm with Dean Dalton to experience the grandeur of the world renowned Houston Symphony. Recorded at the on-site Classical 91.7 studio at Jones Hall in downtown Houston, each broadcast is a unique presentation of some of the finest classical compositions available.
May 15, 2013: Houston Symphony
ORFF: Carmina Burana: Choral section and O Fortuna
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 - excerpt from 2nd movement
SHOSTAKOVICH: Excerpts from Symphony No. 11 and Anti-Formalist Rayok
MOZART: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, "Linz"
RAVEL: L'Heure Espagnole, excerpts
BERG: Wozzeck, excerpts
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4, 4th movement
BARTOK: Violin Concerto No. 2 - 1st movement
STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring (excerpt)
Houston Symphony; Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Hans Graf, conductor
Recorded by Classical 91.7FM/Houston Public Radio
May 22, 2013: Houston Symphony
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in a, op.54
BRUCKNER: Symphony No.6 in A
Houston Symphony; Martin Helmchen, piano; Hans Graf, conductor
Recorded by Classical 92.7FM/Houston Public Radio
May 29, 2013: Houston Symphony
MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus
MUSSORGSKY/RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Night on Bald Mountain
BORODIN/RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade
Houston Symphony; Hans Graf, conductor
Recorded by Classical 91.7FM/Houston Public Radio
