Composers heard on this week’s “Evening Concert” to include Schumann, Beethoven, and others
Piano Quartet, Symphony, and other music forms, works by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and others.
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.
Piano Quartet, Symphony, and other music forms, works by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and others.
"Souvenir of Florence" by Tchaikovsky was written in 1890, and Verdi's "String Quartet" was written earlier, in 1873, Verdi's only surviving work of chamber music in his oeuvre.
Rsussian pianist Yuliaana Avdeeva knows her Chopin. She knows the Maestro's music so well that she won First Prize at the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition held in 2010....
Schumann's "3rd", the Rhenish", came first, written in 1850; Mahler's "7th" dates from 1904-05.
Urbana-born Gil Shaham is the soloist for the Mendelssohn concerto...
Did You Know that the Philharmonic gave the American premiere of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony?
Also on the week's broadcasts, Mendelssohn's 'classic'' "Violin Concerto" and other famous works.
Tonight's works are: String Quintet by Brahms, String Quartet by Berg, Piano Quartet by Schumann, Guitar Sonatas by Paganini, and Piano Quintet by Carter
Christian Tetzlaff is the soloist for the Brahms. Larry Allen is the soloist in Saint-Saens' "Organ" Symphony.
My father did not know Charles Ives and neither did John Adams' father. However, the composer explains himself below....