Tonight’s chamber music = a string quartet, a piano trio, a piano sonata and a string sextet
Music by Haydn, Schumann, Janacek and Tchaikovsky.
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.
The new York Philharmonic plays Stravinsky’s “Petrushka” ballet Music tonight
Music Director Alna Gilbert conducts.
The San Francisco Symphony plays Brahms’ “First Symphony” tonight
Music Director MTT conducts.
Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO in Bruckner’s “7th Symphony” on the “Evening Concert”
You'll also hear Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" and Strauss' "Don Juan"
Pianists Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-Andre Hamelin play works for two pianos
Works by Stravinsly and Debussy from a concert recorded at Carnegie Hall earlier this year.
Symphonies by Brahms (his 1st) and Bruckner (his 7th) highlight this week’s “Evening Concert”
Plus a tone poem by Richard Strauss and chamber music by Schumann and Tchaikovsky
Ravel’s “Gaspard…” and Brahms’ “2nd String Sextet” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Inon Barnatan plays the Ravel....Jennifer Gilbert & Harvey de Souza are the violinists for the Brahms'.
Anthony McGill plays Nielsen’s “Clarinet Concerto” with the Philharmonic* on the Evening Concert
[*New York Phillharmonic, that is]...Music Director Alan Gilbert conducts.
Music for the ballet by Stravinsky: “Petrushka” and the “Scenes” from San Francisco
Thomas Hampson was in the neighborhood so he dropped in to sing on John Adams' "The Wound Dresser"
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein plays Prokofiev’s “Symphony-Concerto” with the CSO
Also, music of Britten: the Suite on English Folk Tunes and Shostakovich's 9th Symphony (not dreary!)
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.