The New York Philharmonic This Week: the 2013–14 Season of Weekly Radio Broadcasts Begins

The New York Philharmonic will launch the tenth season of its concert broadcast series, The
New York Philharmonic This Week, in September. Alec Baldwin returns for his fifth season as
the host of the two-hour radio program, which is produced by the New York Philharmonic and
syndicated both nationally and internationally 52 weeks a year by the WFMT Radio Network.

The September broadcasts begin with Music Director Alan Gilbert leading the New York
Philharmonic in Beethoven's Coriolan Overture; Korngold's Violin Concerto, with Leonidas
Kavakos as soloist; Nielsen's Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia espansiva, featuring soprano Erin
Morley and baritone Joshua Hopkins; and Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments.
Both Nielsen symphonies were recorded and released as part of The Nielsen Project, the
Philharmonic's exploration of Nielsen's six symphonies and three concertos released by Dacapo
Records. The following week, Alan Gilbert conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection,
featuring soprano Dorothea Röschmann, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and the New York
Choral Artists, directed by Joseph Flummerfelt. This piece was recorded during A Concert for
New York, the New York Philharmonic's performance in remembrance and renewal on the
occasion of the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. The broadcast will also include John
Adams's The Wound-Dresser with baritone Thomas Hampson as soloist.

In the third week of September Alan Gilbert conducts Dvo?ák's Carnival Overture; former
Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the
2013-14 Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Yefim Bronfman as soloist; and
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. The following broadcast pays tribute to Shostakovich on the anniversary of his birthday with a program that includes his Festive Overture, conducted by
Bramwell Tovey; Cello Concerto No. 1, conducted by former Music Director Lorin Maazel with
Lynn Harrell as soloist; and Symphony No. 4, conducted by Andrey Boreyko. In the final week,
Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur conducts an all-Brahms program, featuring the Double
Concerto for Violin and Cello, with Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and cellist Alisa Weilerstein
as soloists, and Symphony No. 2.

The New York Philharmonic This Week airs locally in the New York metropolitan area on
WQXR 105.9 FM, Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. [Check local listings.] Concerts are available on the
Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org, for two weeks following the broadcast. The broadcasts are
syndicated to more than 300 outlets nationally and 122 outlets internationally by the WFMT
Radio Network. Alec Baldwin is the host of the program, New York Philharmonic Audio
Producer Mark Travis is the broadcast producer, and Audio Director Lawrence Rock is the music
producer.

The New York Philharmonic's first Live National radio broadcast took place on October 5, 1930,
over the CBS radio network. On that Sunday Erich Kleiber was on the podium leading the
Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Since that historic broadcast, the Philharmonic has enjoyed an almost
continuous presence on national radio. Advancing its role as a media pioneer, the Philharmonic,
since 2002, has shared its radio broadcasts with a worldwide audience through its Website,
nyphil.org. In 2004 the New York Philharmonic was the first major American orchestra to offer
downloadable concerts, recorded live. Following on this innovation, in 2009 the Orchestra
announced the first-ever subscription download series: Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season,
available exclusively on iTunes, produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and
comprising more than 50 works performed during the 2009-10 season. Last season the Orchestra
released another iTunes pass: Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2012-13 Season.
Since 1917 the Philharmonic has made nearly 2,000 recordings, with more than 500 currently
available.

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