On tonight’s “Evening Concert” it’s highlights from the “Reykjavik Festival”
Not held in Reykjavik, Iceland, though, but Los Angeles (it's warmer there!).
The Evening Concert
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.
It’s an “Igor Levit Piano Recital” from Bonn on the “Evening Concert”
He'll play music from Bach's "A Musical Offering" and "Art of the Fugue".
Renaud Capucon plays Brahms’ “Violin Concerto” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
He plays with the CSO with Semyon Bychkov guest conducting.
Tonight’s featured works on “The New York Philharmonic This Week” are prompted by “Dance”
Ginastera: music to "Eastancia" and George Benjamin's (b. 1960) Nine Choreographic Scenes are featured.
This week’s “Evennig Concert” has music by Ginastera, Brahms, Bach, and others
That would be ballet music, a famous "Violin Concerto" and music for keyboard played at the piano, plus much, much more...
String Quartets by Haydn & Mendelssohn, then Franck’s “Piano Quintet In F Minor ”
from the 2017 Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival
Stephen Kovacevich plays Mozart’s “24th Piano Concerto” with the “Los Angeles Philharmonic”
The alphorn (actually four of them) is (are) featured in a newer work by Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas. That should be fun!
Javier Perianes plays Beethoven’s “4th Piano Concerto” in Frankfurt on the “Evening Concert”
Filling in last minute would seem to put an artist in the 'waiting-in-the-wings' category, which is hardly the case for pianist Perianes....the scheduled soloist walked out during rehearsal and didn't return!
Gounod’s “Saint Cecilia Mass” featured on tonight’s “Evening Concert” from the CSO
The Chicago Symphony Chorus has a feautured role in the Gounod "Mass", and in Poulenc's "Gloria".
Gil Shaham joins the Philharmonic for Barber’s “Violin Concerto” on the Evening Concert
Like many Violin Concertos that preceded it, Barber's was considered (here paraphrasing the players who made the remarks) "too difficult" to perform...
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
