
On tonight’s “Evening Concert”: chamber music by Poulenc, Chausson, Brahms and Beethoven
You'll hear a "Sonata for Two Clarients", a "Concerto" that's really a sextet, two lieder and a string quartet.
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.
You'll hear a "Sonata for Two Clarients", a "Concerto" that's really a sextet, two lieder and a string quartet.
The headline should more accurately be put as “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” by Debussy, and “The Planets” by Holst
The Piano Concerto Number 23 was completed, per Mozart's own catalogue on March 2, 1786, while the 24th Concerto was written 24 March 1786, three weeks after the completion of the Piano Concerto in A major. The works date from the period of his opera "The Marriage of Figaro"
The at-times-referred-to-as the-greatest-orchestra-in-the-world is led by their Music Director Maestro Riccardo Muti.
"I have never written anything like it (...) Nor, perhaps, have I ever worked under such a sense of inner compulsion; it was like a sudden vision - all at once the whole thing stood before my eyes and all I had to do was write it down, as though it had been dictated to me." - Mahler on his 8th Symphony*
That would be, in order, an "8th Symphony", two symphonies (#3 & 4) and two more piano concertos featuring Mitsuko Uchida.
Those Polish "voices" belong to Szymanowski and Penderecki; the Russian "voice" belongs to Arensky.
the "Gloria" features the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and soloist Yulia Van Doren.
Tonight: Concertos No. 17 in G, K. 453 and No. 25 in C, K.507
Beethoven's 7th Symphony dates from 1811-12. It is noted by contemporaries that Beethoven is said to have remarked (paraphrased) that it was one of his best works.[It is!]