The Evening Concert

"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!]

Mahler's 7th dates from 1904 to 1905.

...among others, including music by Poulenc (Gloria) and Schubert ("Trout" Quintet)

The programs open with the Ravel Piano Trio in A minor of 1914, and a work of 30 years later, the Shostakovich 2nd Piano Trio (1944), then music by Campion, Takemitsu and Brahms.

Also on the program Tchaikovsky's "4th Symphony".