Join us on on Sunday, November 7th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, November 8th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2, to hear a Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast from 2017 that brings you a work very familiar through recordings, but not often performed in the concert hall: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Here’s a chance to savor a performance of this emotionally riveting work by the celebrated strings of The Philadelphia Orchestra led by Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles, the esteemed general music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, music director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, principal guest conductor of the Atlanta Symphony, and conductor emeritus of the BBC Scottish Symphony.
Also on this concert is Mozart’s 38th Symphony, the “Prague,” so named for the city that loved his music, and premiered some of his greatest pieces.
After intermission, an orchestral suite from Engelbert Humperdinck’s extraordinary fairy-tale opera, Hänsel und Gretel, and the Overture to Wagner’s early romantic opera, Tannhäuser, one of his first big successes.
During intermission, Debra Lew Harder speaks backstage with Maestro Runnicles, and Susan Lewis has a conversation with the Orchestra’s versatile and talented Principal Second Violin Kimberly Fisher, who is a member of the string quartet within the larger string ensemble in the Vaughan Williams Tallis Fantasy.
Read detailed program notes from the concert
PROGRAM:
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D, (“Prague”)
INTERMISSION
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, Suite for Orchestra
Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor
Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcasts, every Sunday at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, streaming online at WRTI.org, and on our mobile app! Listen again on Mondays at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2
