Mozart’s “Sinfonia concertante” & Shostakovich’s “8th Symphony” on the “Evening Concert”
Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante" dates from 1779, the composer was in his early 20s and had been travelling throughout Europe with stops In Mannheim and Paris.
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Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante" dates from 1779, the composer was in his early 20s and had been travelling throughout Europe with stops In Mannheim and Paris.
Rusinek is Principal Clarinetist with the PSO.
Cesar Franck (Belgian) was schooled at the Paris Conservatoire like Ravel and D'Indy.
The Shanghai Spring International Music Festival brings together the best from the West and the East...recorded in Shangha in the Spring of 2015.
This Monday starts a new 8-week series called "Shanghai Spring". It's a classical music festival that mixes tradition, the West, and almagamations, and the East.
Two works for piano-four-hands on the first hour of the program, then Schumann's famous (rightly so!) "Piano Quartet".
It really is a true story, about the US soldier who invited Strauss to write an oboe concerto.
Rodrigo wrote the concerto in 1939......Tchaikovsky wrote his work, the Manfred Symphony in 1885 after the Lord Byron poem of the same name.
Shostakovich wrote his "Cello Concerto No. 1" in 1959 for MStislav Rostropovich. It is considered to be one of the most difficult cello concertos ever written.
With music by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Schubert, Beethoven and others. Anthony McGill hosts.