Yefim Bronfman Plays Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Tonight at 7:00 on WILL-FM: it’s “The Evening Concert’.  Yefim Bronfman is the soloist in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto with the the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts. Also on the program: waltzes and polkas by the Strauss’s, like “The Blue Danube”. 

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (#13-14_09)

Manfred Honeck, conductor;  *Yefim Bronfman, piano;  **Gregg Baker, baritone

*BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

*[Encores; LISZT: Etude #2 in Eb; CHOPIN: Etude in C# Minor, Op. 10, No. 12]

JOH. STRAUSS, JR: Overture to Eine Nacht in Venedig 

JOH. STRAUSS, SR.: Moulinet & Eislauf Polkas 

JOH. STRAUSS, JR: On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz 

**LEHAR: “You are My Heart’s Delight” from Das Land des Lachelns 

**LEHAR: “Volga Song” from Der Zarewitsch 

JOH. STRAUSS, SR: Telefon-Polka 

MANCINI: “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s 

STRAUSS, JR: Thunder and Lightning Polka

**KERN: Old Man River from Show Boat

JOH. STRAUSS, JR: Im Krapfenwald’l Waltz 

JOH. STRAUSS, JR:  Radetzky March