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The CSO plays Beethoven’s “7th Symphony” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
In keeping with his desire to have the orchestra perform more less-often-heard works, Maestro Muti has music by Catalani and Martucci on the program.
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.
In keeping with his desire to have the orchestra perform more less-often-heard works, Maestro Muti has music by Catalani and Martucci on the program.
He'll play with the National Youth Orchestra of the US led by Christoph Eschenbach.
There'll be multiple works by Mozart this week, a symphony by Beethoven and one by Nielsen, and chamber music by Brahms among others.
There's a double helping of Dvorak's music this evening: selections from the "Echo of Songs" and the complete Piano Quintet in A, opus 81.
"Gaspard de la nuit" (Gaspard of the Night) was written for piano solo in 1908; premiered in 1909; Constant's orchestration is from 1990.
The work "A Hero's Life" (tone poem) was completed in 1898, the Brentano Leider written 20 years later, 1918, and orchestrated by Strauss in 1940.
Stravinsky's "Firebird" Ballet premiered in 1910; forty-plus years later Ginastera's "Harp Concerto" had its premiere.
It'll be Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante" and Bruckner's "7th Symphony" on tonight's "Evening Concert"
The week starts with one of the Mozart piano concertos, then it's Ravel's :"Bolero", a symphony by Schumann, chamber music by Dvorak, and much more...
Barber's "Souvenirs" published in 1953 is one his most accessible works. Schubert's "Quintet in C" is one of his last works and contains the usual poignancy found in the late works.