“Jose van Dam - Master Singer at 75” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Bass-baritone Jose van Dam turned 75 last year and to celebrate the event the WFMT Network put together this program using Maestro van Dam's recorded legacy.
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Bass-baritone Jose van Dam turned 75 last year and to celebrate the event the WFMT Network put together this program using Maestro van Dam's recorded legacy.
A special on Jose van Dam, a CSO World Premiere, Anne-Sophie Mutter in Pittsburgh to play Bruch, a retrospective on Kurt Masur and chamber music by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart and more on this week's "Evening Concert".
If you have not ever heard Beethoven's last String Quartet, Opus 131 in C-sharp minor, you owe it to yourself to stop and listen. It is one of "those" works....sublime, magnificent, plus other superlatives...
Composer Alban Berg said of Mahler's 9th Symphony "It expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, for Nature".
Tonight's "Cinema Serenade" is a program of classical music written for the movies and music not-written-for-the-movies-but-often-found-there.
Imagine if Mozart were in tonight's audience for his Piano Concerto No. 23 and the Strauss "Till..." and Ives' 2nd Symphony. What would his opinion of the works be?
You'll hear runners-up fifth, fourth, third, and second, before hearing the winner of the The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Winners Concert on tonight's "Evening Concert"
Also on the week's programs music by Charles Ives (!), Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Oliver Nelson, and others. . . .
Tonight's performers include violinist Kristin Lee, harpist Bridget Kibby, clarinetist Todd Palmer and more.
Bernard Haitink guest conducts, mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink is featured.