The New York Philharmonic This Week, which began in 2004 and is syndicated nationally by the WFMT Radio Network, has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Gold World Medal in the category of Best Sound, and its second Bronze World Medal in the category of Best Regularly Scheduled Music Program at the 2013 New York Festivals Radio Programs and Promotions Awards. The program has also won awards for Best Classical Format and Best Announcer Presentation.
Broadcasts are available on the Philharmonic’s website, nyphil.org, for two weeks following the original uplink. Emmy and Golden-Globe Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin is the host of the program, New York Philharmonic Audio Producer Mark Travis is the writer and producer, and New York Philharmonic Audio Director Lawrence Rock is the engineer for the series.
Sept 29: MAHLER: Symphony No. 7
Oct 6: VARÈSE: Amériques
RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite; Prélude et Danse de Sémiramis; Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
Oct 13: BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
CORIGLIANO: Symphony No. 1
Oct 20: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4; St. Antoni Variations
SCHOENBERG: Gurrelieder, “Song of the Wood Dove”; Verklärte Nacht
Oct 27: J.S. BACH (arr. Webern): Fuga (Ricercata) from “Musical Offering”
DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto
LAKNER: Three-Minute Cello Concerto
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Nov 3: BACH (arr. H.J. WOOD): Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
MUSSORGSKY/RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Night on Bald Mountain
GOUNOD: Ballet Music from Faust
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique: “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”
LISZT: A Faust Symphony
GRIEG: “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nov 10: MILHAUD: Suite française, Op. 248 (arr. for orchestra)
STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite (1945)
HINDEMITH: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d: Requiem for Those We Love
RODGERS: The Carousel Waltz
Nov 17: BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
RZEWSKI: The People United Will Never Be Defeated
Nov 24: RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales
NIELSEN: Clarinet Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from “Swan Lake”
Dec 1: VIVALDI: Concerto for Piccolo, Strings, and Cembalo in C, RV 444
HINDEMITH: Symphony, “Mathis der Maler”
MOZART: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B-flat, K. 191
PAINE: Symphony No. 2 in A, Op. 34, “In Spring”