Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the San Francisco Symphony, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) conducting. Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto. The program also features works from the Symphony’s November 2014 CD release “Masterpieces in Miniature”: Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise”, Sibelius’ “Valse triste”, and others. You can hear an audio preview of the slow movemenet of the Beethoven concerto with Emanule Ax here:http://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2013-2014/MTT-and-Emanuel-Ax-Beethoven.aspx

Wednesday April 15: San Francisco Symphony (SFS #15-03) (New season, Ep. 3)

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; *Emanuel Ax, piano

Mahler: Blumine

*Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Opus 37

Copland: Music from the film Our Town

Debussy: La Plus que lente

Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Grieg: The Last Spring, Opus 34, no.2

Rachmaninoff: “Vocalise,” Opus 34, no.14

Delibes: “Cortège of Bacchus” from Sylvia