The Evening Concert

The program comes to us from Chicago, the CSO, and includes music by Richard Strauss and John Adams.

What "Philharmonic" is that?  New York, of course!

An all-Sibelius program from New York, Mozart and others from Chicago, Mahler and Debussy from San Francisco, Bruch and Shostakovich from Pittsburgh, and chamber music from Lincoln Center and Santa Fe.

The Brahms' work dates from 1861, the Dvorak from 1895, it's his last string quartet.

The ballet "Petrushka" was written in 1910-11, and revised in 1947; "Bolero" was written in 1928, originally for a ballet.

Barantschik and Vinacour are the soloists in the Mozart; conductor MTT brings his understanding of Bartok to the "Concerto for Orchestra".

Violinist Biondi leads the group from the violin and mezzo-soprano Genaux sings beautiful less-well-known arias of the Baroque.

Maestro Mehta conducted the Philharmonic over 1000 times! Here just a few of those exciting performances tonight.

Mozart's "Symphony No. 25 in G minor" from New York, "Sinfonia Concertante" from San Francisco, Vivaldi "Violin Concertos" from Chicago, Ravel's "Bolero" from Pittsburgh; these are just some of the highlights from this week's "Evening Concerts"

In WWII Messiaen spent time as a POW in a concentration camp, which is where he composed his famous "Quartet".