Videos, DVDs & CDs
The Evanston Symphony Orchestra is proud to provide videos to educate you about the pieces we perform and, at times, the soloists who will be performing. The video(s) below are examples only and do not represent performances by the Evanston Symphony Orchestra unless noted.
DVOŘÁK
Cello Concerto; 3rd movement (beginning)
DVOŘÁK
Cello Concerto; 3rd movement (end)
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Carlo Maria Giulini, London Philharmonic Orchestra
ESO Recommended
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BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93; 4th movement
Pierre Monteux, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
This historic 1961 TV broadcast is conducted by an 86 year old Pierre Monteux, who also conducted the world premiere of Stravinsky's Petrushka (featured on our May concert) 50 years before this broadcast.
Wendy Warner
Our March Soloist
Wendy Warner & Irina Nuzova
Wendy Warner plays the Second Movement of the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata. Her complete CD recording of this beautiful sonata will be released this Spring by Cedille Records.
ESO Recommended
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Wendy Warner Plays Popper & Piatigorsky
Our Soloist
Wendy Warner, cello
Wendy Warner, hailed by Strings magazine for her "youthful, surging playing, natural stage presence and almost frightening technique," has become one of the leading cellists in the world. After garnering international attention with a first-prize win in the Fourth International Rostropovich Competition in Paris in 1990, audiences have watched Warner perform on many of the world's most honored stages, including New York's Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall in Boston, Los Angeles' Walt Disney Hall, Paris' Salle Pleyel and Berlin's Philharmonie.
Warner has collaborated with such leading conductors as Mstislav Rostropovich, Neeme Jarvi, and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has recently performed with the Santa Barbara, Detroit, Colorado and New World Symphonies; the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec and the Calgary Philharmonic.
A passionate chamber musician, Warner has collaborated with the Vermeer String Quartet, the Fine Arts Quartet, and with esteemed violinist Gidon Kremer. Recital work includes performances at the Music Institute of Chicago, Nichols Hall, the Phillips Collection and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and internationally in both Milan and Tokyo. The cellist was invited to perform in recital and with orchestra at the 70th birthday celebration concert of Rostropovich in Kronberg, Germany and with Rostropovich in the Vivaldi double concerto in Reims, France.
Warner's musical career began at age six under the tutelage of Nell Novak, until she joined Mstislav Rostropovich at the Curtis Institute from which she graduated. An accomplished pianist as well, she studied with Emilio del Rosario at The Music Center. Warner made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra in New York, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, in October 1990, playing the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1. Immediately following she was reengaged to appear with them on a North American tour in 1991. She was also the featured soloist on the 1991 European tour of the Bamberg Symphony, again conducted by Rostropovich, making her debuts in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Koln, Dusseldorf and Berlin.
In 2009, Warner will release two recordings for the Chicago-based label Cedille, one devoted to works by legendary cellists Popper and Piatigorsky; the other including sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Miaskovsky. Past recordings include Warner's debut recording of Hindemith music for cello and piano (Bridge Records), in which she performed the composer's complete chamber works for cello, and a second disc featuring duos for cello and violin (with Rachel Barton Pine) on Cedille Records. Most recently released is Warner's critically acclaimed recording of the Barber Concerto with Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on Naxos Records.
A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Warner teaches at Roosevelt University.
Concert Three
Sunday, March 21, 2010
2:30 pm
THE ROMANTIC CELLO
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston
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INDIVIDUAL CONCERT TICKETS:
Advance Sales:
$25 Adult, $20 Seniors
Children 12 and younger are admitted absolutely FREE.
Please call 847.864.8804 or email tickets@evanstonsymphony.org for all orders with
children’s tickets.
Box Office Sales:
$28 Adult, $23 Seniors
Children 12 and younger are admitted absolutely FREE.
$5.00 Student Tickets, subject to availability, at the box office with ID.
Group discounts are available for parties of 10 or more. Please call 847.864.8804 for further information
This all-Romantic program culminates in Dvořák’s impassioned memorial to his lost love, unsurpassed in the repertory for cello and orchestra. Beethoven’s witty and rollicking 8th Symphony is sure to entertain, and the opening horn call of Weber’s evocation of Shakespeare sets the stage for an enchanting afternoon.
WEBER
- Overture to Oberon
BEETHOVEN
- Symphony No. 8 in F Major,
Op. 93
DVOŘÁK
- Cello Concerto in B Minor,
Op. 104
- Wendy Warner, Cello
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 1:30 PM
FREE.
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