January calendar

Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by presenters, is updated as details become available. Adult single-ticket prices are listed; senior, student/youth, group and other discounts may be offered.

WEATHER ADVISORY (Jan. 21): A winter storm is bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic region, with significant snow accumulation expected in central, western and northern Virginia and the Washington area. The storm will be followed by four to five days of exceptionally cold weather. Events are likely to be canceled or postponed in affected areas. Call ahead before venturing out.

SCOUTING REPORT

* In and around Richmond: Karen Johnson, former concertmaster of the Richmond Symphony, and Gustav Highstein, the orchestra’s principal oboist, join Victor Yampolsky and the Eckhart Ensemble in a program of Bach and Mozart, Jan. 4 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. . . . The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia, led by cellist James Wilson, explores time in two programs, featuring music of Haydn, Messiaen, Tchaikovsky, Philip Glass and others, Jan. 5 and 7 at Bon Air Presbyterian Church. . . . . The ensemble Alkemie brings medieval and Renaissance music to Good Shepherd Episcopal Church on Jan. 10. . . . The Richmond Symphony, Steven Smith conducting, performs Richard Strauss’ “Don Quixote” with two symphony principals, cellist Neal Cary and violist Molly Sharp, Jan. 11 at Richmond CenterStage. . . . Erin R. Freeman conducts a Richmond Symphony LolliPops program on Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” Jan. 25 at Richmond CenterStage.

* Noteworthy elsewhere: Two conductors explain Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony before leading performances of it: Marin Alsop with the Baltimore Symphony, Jan. 10 at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs of DC, and Christoph Eschenbach with the National Symphony (and with explanatory multimedia), Jan. 24 at Washington’s Kennedy Center. . . . Pianist David Greilsammer contrasts sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and John Cage (!), Jan. 11 at the Kennedy Center. . . . Pinchas Zukerman leads Britain’s Royal Philharmonic in a program of Bach, Schoenberg and Brahms, Jan. 12 at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts in Fairfax. . . . Stephen Hough plays Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Mark Elder and the National Symphony, Jan. 16-18 at the Kennedy Center. . . . Pianist Tracy Cowden and soprano Ariana Wyatt join David Stewart Wiley and members of the Roanoke Symphony in a Green Room musicale of Martinů, Purcell, Bernstein, Rorem, Bolcom and more, Jan. 16-17 at the symphony’s intimate venue in downtown Roanoke. . . . Opera Lafayette reprises Philidor’s “Les Femmes Vengées” (sometimes known as the “French Cosí”), Jan. 16-17 at the Kennedy Center (waiting list for Jan. 17). . . . Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnaton play Debussy, Schubert, Rachmaninoff and more, Jan. 19 at the Kennedy Center (waiting list for tickets). . . . The Takács Quartet brings its double-header of the complete Bartók quartets to the Kennedy Center on Jan. 21-22. . . . The piano duo of Christina and Michelle Naughton join JoAnn Falletta and the Virginia Symphony in an all-French program, Jan. 24-26 at venues in Newport News, Norfolk and Virginia Beach. . . . Pianist Denis Matsuev plays Haydn, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, Jan. 25 at Strathmore. . . . Baritone Matthias Goerne sings Schubert’s song cycle “Die schöne Müllerin,” with Christoph Eschenbach accompanying on piano, Jan. 27 at the Kennedy Center. . . . Goerne and other voices join Eschenbach and the National Symphony in Hindemith’s rarely performed “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” and Joshua Bell plays the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Jan. 30-Feb. 1 at the Kennedy Center.


Jan. 2 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Grams conducting
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Viennese New Year program
Johann Strauss II: waltzes, operetta arias TBA
$31-$94
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org

Jan. 4 (8 p.m.)
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Grove Avenue at Three Chopt Road, Richmond
Eckhart Ensemble
Victor Yampolsky conducting
J.S. Bach: “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 3
J.S. Bach: Concerto for violin and oboe
Karen Johnson, violin
Gustav Highstein, oboe
Mozart: Symphony No. 33
$20
(804) 288-2867
www.saintstephensrichmond.net/concerts

Jan. 4 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 5 (3 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
National Philharmonic
Piotr Gajewski conducting
Dvořák: Serenade for strings
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 (“Turkish”)
Nurit Bar-Josef, violin
Mozart: Symphony No. 29
$28-$84
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org

Jan. 5 (4 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Jesse Mills & Daisuke Yamamoto, violins
Max Mandel, viola
James Wilson, cello
Mary Boodell, flute
Jared Davis, clarinet
Rieko Aizawa, piano
“Time”
Haydn-Salomon: Symphony No. 101 (“Clock”)
Carl Fruehling: Clarinet Trio
Tchaikovsky-Takemitsu: “Autumn Song” from “The Seasons”
Onatue Narbutaite: “Winter Serenade”
Roger Zare: “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”
$30
(804) 519-2098
www.cmscva.org

Jan. 5 (6:30 p.m.)
West Building, West Garden Court, National Gallery of Art, Sixth Street at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington
National Gallery Orchestra
Vladimir Lande conducting
Glinka: “Ruslan and Ludmilla” Overture
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Xiayin Wang, piano
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
free (limited seating)
(202) 737-4215
www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/concerts.html

Jan. 7 (7:30 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Jesse Mills & Daisuke Yamamoto, violins
Max Mandel, viola
James Wilson, cello
Jared Davis, clarinet
Rieko Aizawa, piano
“The End of Time”
Liszt: “Sposalisio”
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 5
Messiaen: “Quartet for the End of Time”
$30
(804) 519-2098
www.cmscva.org

Jan. 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Vocal Arts DC:
Ana María Martínez, soprano
Thomas Jaber, piano
program TBA
$50
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 10 (7:30 p.m.)
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Forest Hill Avenue at 43rd Street, Richmond
Alkemie
medieval and Renaissance music TBA
donation requested
(804) 233-2278
www.goodshepherdrichmond.org

Jan. 10 (8:15 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting and speaking
“Off the Cuff: Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony”
discussion and performance
$44-$78
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org

Jan. 11 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Douglas-Jayd Burn, piano
Rebeka Butler, violin
“Clavier â cordes”
works by Beethoven, Beach, Prokofiev
free
(804) 646-7223
www.richmondpubliclibrary.org

Jan. 11 (8 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
Wagner: “Lohengrin” orchestral excerpts
George Walker: “Foils for Orchestra (Homage à Saint-Georges)”
Richard Strauss: “Don Quixote”
Neal Cary, cello
Molly Sharp, viola
$10-$76
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 11 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
David Greilsammer, piano
sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, John Cage
$35
(202) 985-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org

Jan. 12 (8 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Royal Philharmonic
Pinchas Zukerman conducting
J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Schoenberg: “Transfigured Night”
Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Amanda Forsyth, cello
$37.50-$75
(888) 945-2468 (Tickets.com)
www.cfa.gmu.edu

Jan. 12 (6:30 p.m.)
East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, Sixth Street at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington
National Gallery Orchestra
Andrew Simpson conducting
“Ciné-Concert”
Buster Keaton’s “The General”
film screened with live accompaniment
free
(202) 737-4215
www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/concerts.html

 Jan. 16 (6 p.m.)
Jan. 17 (6 p.m.)
The Green Room, 128 E. Campbell Ave., Roanoke
Roanoke Symphony Virtuosi strings and winds
David Stewart Wiley, conductor & host
Tracy Cowden, piano
Ariana Wyatt, soprano
“Musical Aperitif”
works by Martinů, Purcell, Bernstein, Rorem, Bolcom, Musto, Hagen
$30
(540) 343-9127
www.rso.com

Jan. 16 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 17 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 18 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Mark Elder conducting
Elgar: “In the South”
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Stephen Hough, piano
Richard Strauss: “Don Quixote”
David Hardy, cello
Daniel Foster, viola
$10-$85
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 16 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan conducting
Haydn: Symphony No. 30 (“Alleluia”)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27
Jeremy Denk, piano
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto
Fei Xie, bassoon
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
$31-$94
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org

Jan. 17 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Opera Lafayette
Ryan Brown conducting
Philidor: “Les Femmes Vengées”
Pascale Beaudin (Fleurdelise/Madame La Président)
Blandine Staskiewicz (Dorabelle/Madame Lek)
Alex Dobson (Guillaume/Monsieur Lek)
Antonio Figueroa (Fernand/Le Président)
Claire Debono (Delphine/Madame Riss)
Jeffrey Thompson (peintre/Monsieur Riss)
Nick Olcott, stage director
in French, English captions
$60-$90 (waiting list)
open rehearsal at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16 ($30-$45)
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 18 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 19 (2 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Zimmerman conducting
Elgar: Serenade for strings
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
William Hite, tenor
Eric Moore, horn
Shostakovich-Barshai: Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a
Britten: “Simple” Symphony
$25-$60
(888) 945-2468 (Tickets.com)
www.cfa.gmu.edu

Jan. 18 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 53091 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
National Philharmonic
Victoria Gau conducting
Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K. 136
J.S. Bach: Clavier Concerto No. 1
Gabriela Martinez, piano
Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G major
Julie Keim, soprano
Robert Petillo, tenor
Kerry Wilkerson, bass
$28-$84
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org

Jan. 19 (7 p.m.)
Calvary Revival Church, 5833 Poplar Hall Drive, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony
conductor TBA
“Songs for a Dreamer: a Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
program TBA
free
(757) 213-1403
www.virginiasymphony.org

Jan. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Inon Barnaton, piano
Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano
Schubert: Fantasia in C major, D. 934
Auerbach: preludes for cello and piano, Op. 47 (excerpts) (after Shostakovich: 24 preludes, Op. 34)
Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
$60 (waiting list)
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org

Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Takács Quartet
Bartók: quartets Nos. 1, 3, 5
$45
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Takács Quartet
Bartók: quartets Nos. 2, 4, 6
$45
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 23 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 25 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 (“Haffner”)
Avner Dorman: “Frozen in Time”
Martin Grubinger, percussion
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)
$10-$85
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 23 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Pops
Jack Everly conducting
Debbie Gravitte, vocalist
“Marvin Hamlisch –One Singular Sensation”
Hamlisch: excerpts from “A Chorus Line,” “The Sting,” “The Way We Were,” other works
$36-$99
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org

Jan. 24 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Jan. 25 (8 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Jan. 26 (2:30 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony
JoAnn Falletta conducting
Saint-Saëns: “Carnival of the Animals”
Poulenc: Concerto for two pianos
Christina & Michelle Naughton, piano duo
Debussy: “La Mer”
Ravel: “Bolero”
$22-$105
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org

Jan. 24 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
“Beyond the Score: Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 – Whose World?”
multimedia presentation followed by performance
$10-$50
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 25 (11 a.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Richmond Symphony LolliPops
Erin R. Freeman conducting
“An American in Paris”
$10
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 25 (7 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Denis Matsuev, piano
Haydn: Sonata in E flat major
Schumann: “Carnaval”
Rachmaninoff: preludes in G minor, G sharp minor
Tchaikovsky: Dumka in C minor, “Méditation”
Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor
$35-$75
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org

Jan. 26 (6:30 p.m.)
West Building, West Garden Court, National Gallery of Art, Sixth Street at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington
Dalí String Quartet
works TBA by Efrain Amaya, others
free
(202) 737-4215
www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/concerts.html

 Jan. 26 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Anna Lee, violin
Robert Koenig, piano
Brahms: Scherzo in C minor from “F.A.E.” Sonata
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2
Ives: Violin Sonata No. 2
Massenet: “Méditation” from “Thaïs”
Hubay: “Fantasie brilliante on Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ ”
$25
(202) 985-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org

Jan. 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Schubert: “Die schöne Müllerin”
$55
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Aleksey Semenenko, violin
Inna Firsova, piano
Beethoven: Sonata in A minor, Op. 23
Chausson: “Poème”
Ysaÿe: Sonata in D minor, Op. 27, No. 3 (“Ballade”), for solo violin
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34
Paganini: “I Palpiti,” Op. 13
$35
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 30 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 31 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 1 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Joshua Bell, violin
Hindemith: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Choral Arts Society of Washington
$10-$85
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

Jan. 31 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Rivanna String Quartet
Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Puccini: “Crisantemi”
Bartók: Quartet No. 1 in A minor
$15
(434) 924-3376
www.music.virginia.edu/events

Jan. 31 (6:30 p.m.)
Trinkle Main Stage, Mill Mountain, Theatre, Center in the Square, 1 Market St. SE, Roanoke
Roanoke Symphony Classical Orchestra
David Stewart Wiley conducting
Mozart: “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
Britten: “Simple” Symphony
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Carmen Eby, clarinet
$30
(540) 343-9127
www.rso.com

Jan. 31 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Vocal Arts DC:
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone
Wolfram Rieger, piano
program TBA
$50
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org