The Evening Concert

This week you'll also hear Rachmaninov's "3rd Piano Concerto" and a string quartet by it's "inventor" Franz Joseph Haydn.

Also on the program Brahms' "2nd Piano Trio" and his "need-to-be-hear-more-often-because-they're-great-works" "Libeslieder (Love-Song) Waltzes".

Also on the program: Schumann's "2nd Symphony"

Music Director MTT (Michael Tilson Thomas) conducts. Daniil Trifonov is the piano soloist in one of Chopin's two piano concertos.

Music by Gershwin (An American in Paris), Barber (Overture to the School For Scandal), Ives, Bates and others.

The Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra knows how to "get to Carnegie Hall"  (practice, practice, practice!).

Carnegie Hall Live airs Monday evenings at 7:00, San Francisco Symphony airs Wednesday evenings at 7:00, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival airs Sundays at 8:00; the continuous seires are on Tuesday, the CSO, Thursday, New York Philharmonic and Sundays at 7:00 the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

"From the Stage at Krannert Center" was recorded last October in Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Center.

In Strauss' "Ein Heldenleben" there are over 30 quotations of music by Strauss from his previous tone poems, like "Also Sprach Zarathustra".

Saint-Saens "5th Piano Concerto" and "3rd Symphony" are his last works in those genres.