“Reflections on Love” from the New York Philharmonic on the “Evening Concert”
Famous classical works about Love, like the "Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture" by Tchaikovsky, and Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll".
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.
“Reflections on Love” and “An American in Paris” among other topics on the “Evening Concert”
The week starts with the New York Philharmonic's take on "Reflections on Love", followed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's "An American in Paris", plus much more . . .
Two String Quartets (Mozart & Dvorak) and a famous Piano Quintet on the “Evening Concert”
Start with Mozart, K. 387 SQ in G major; then Dvorak's Op. 96 "American" quartet in F; finish with Schumann's op 44 pIano Quintet, plus a special historic encore.
Helene Grimaud is the soloist in Brahms’ “2nd Piano Concerto” from Los Angeles
Also on the program: Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" music and James Matheson's "Unchained".
Mariinsky Theater Orchestra plays “Scheherazade” and more on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
The "and more" is Beethoven's "4th Symphony" and "Prelude to Act One of Lohengrin" by Wagner.
Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony plus music by Part and others on the “Evening Concert”
Also on the program, CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen is featured in "Fratres" and Bartok's "1st Violin Concerto"
Dedicated “To the memory of an angel”...Do you know the reference?
It's a famous dedication written at the top of the score for Berg's "Violin Concerto". The angel? Manon Gropius, daughter of Alma (Mahler) and Walter Gropius (who was one of the founders of the Bauhaus school of architecture).
Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony & Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade coming this week…
on the "Evening Concert, which will also include Brahms' "2nd Piano Concerto" and Schumann's Opus 44 "Piano Quintet" among other works.
String Quartets by Mozart & Schumann, Dvorak’s Op 81 Quintet on the “Evening Concert”
It's the Penderecki String Quartet with pianist Pamela Mia Paul.
West Coast Premiere of Thomas Ades’ “Totentanze” on the “Evening Concert”
The composer conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in his own work that premiered at the 2013 Proms concerts in the England.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
