Symphonies by Schubert, Mahler, and Shostakovich on this week’s “Evening Concert”
Additionally this week we'll have a piano concerto not-named-as-such by Falla, and Mozart's Famous "Gran Partita" Serenade plus much more.
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.
Additionally this week we'll have a piano concerto not-named-as-such by Falla, and Mozart's Famous "Gran Partita" Serenade plus much more.
The Violin Sonata in G is Brahms first sonata for those two instruments. It was written within five years of the work by Smetana. Smetana's programmatic 1st String Quartet (From My Life) attempts to capture the artist's emotions as his deafness worsened.
Kavakos is a violinistic (is that a word?) force to be reckoned with!
Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite", Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite"
An evening of music by French composers Ravel and Debussy for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra.
You've heard the Sibelius "VIolin Concerto"? If 'yes', then enjoy another stellar rendition tonight. If 'no' then tune in for this work. I've always thought that there's a little melodic idea that hints at the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme well berfore that theme was written.
Monday, Hilary Hahn plays Sibelius' "Violin Concerto" at Carnegie Hall, Thursday it's Leonidas Kavakos with the New York Philharmonic...
Co-Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, David Finckel and Wu Han are featured in the Schubert Trio.
Upon hearing the first performances critics and audiences were unsure of what to make of Mahler's 1st Symphony, which sounds 'tame' when compared with some works of it's era of composition...
Levit has emerged as a 'star' in today's universe of pianists....April of 2015 the L.A. Times described him as "the best Russian pianist you've never heard...yet"