The Evening Concert

Classic Mornings

7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday

Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.

Beethoven
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Borodin Quartet plays Beethoven’s “String Quartet No. 12”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s a Deutsche Welle Festival Concert from Bonn. You’ll hear the Borodin Quartet play Beethoven’s “String Quartet No. 12” and movements from the “7th String Quartet”. Also on the program Shostakovich’s “12th String Quartet” and movements from his “2nd String Quartet”.

Mendelssohn
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Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony and Dvorak’s 5th Symphony

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Mendelssohn’s “4th Symphony in A Major, the Italian Symphony” and Dvorak’s “5th Symphony in F Major” and Also on the program Respighi’s “Feste romane” and Martucci’s Notturno.

Stravinsky
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Valery Gergiev conducts an all-Stravinsky program

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. It’s an all-Stravinsky program led by Valery Gergiev. You’ll hear “The Firebird”, the “Symphonies of Wind Instruments’ and “Les Noces” with the Mariinsky Theater Chorus and assorted vocal soloists and pianists. 

Schubert
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A new week of “Evening Concerts” from Stravinsky to Schubert

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” from New York, Mendelssohn’s “Italian Symphony” from Chicago, Beethoven’s “12th String Quartet” from Bonn, Prokofiev’s “1st Piano Concerto” from San Francisco, then Sunday piano preludes by Scriabin from Lincoln Center and a “String Quintet” by Schubert from Santa Fe.

Mussorgsky
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Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the fourth program in a new series from the San Francisco Symphony. You’ll hear Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”. Cristian Măcelaru  guest conducts. Also on the program Adam Schoenberg’s “Losing Earth” and Boulanger’s “Spring Morning”.

Carl Nielsen
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Nielsen’s “Little Suite for Strings” and Gade’s “String Octet”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s another Deutsche Welle Festival Concert from Schleswig-Holstein. You’ll hear Concerto Copenhagen play Gade’s “String Octet” and Nielsen’s “Little Suite for Strings”. Also on the program Nielsen’s “1st String Quartet” and Sibelius’ “Intimate Voices String Quartet”.

Adolph "Bud" Herseth
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The “Adolph “Bud” Herseth Centennial”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear former Principal Trumpet Adolph “Bud” Herseth” in Haydn’s “E-flat Trumpet Concerto”, Ives’ “The Unanswered Question” and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”.

Illinois Arts Council Agency

These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.