The Evening Concert

Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto makes two appearances this week in an unintended synchronicity of scheduling!

Thirty years separate the two featured works on tonight's "Evening Concert": the "Clarinet Quintet" is a late work by Brahms, published 1891, the "Piano Quartet No.2", published 1861.

The two symphonies on tonight's program come from later in each composer's career. They are both considered masterworks of the form and of their era. Enjoy!

Initially violinist Leopold Auer was critical of the solo writing in the Tchaikovsky 'VIolin Concerto'. Years later Auer changed his mind and became one of the works fervent champions.*

Zukerman is ‘soloist one’ in Bach’s “Double Violin Concerto” and the only soloist in Telemann’s “Viola Concerto”, and he conducts music of Mozart, as well.

The three piano trios on the program were all composed in the 19th century, thus having similarities in sound and texture, but with different character dependenet upon who composed it.

Music by Dvorak, Bach, Haydn and others, including Tchaikovsky and Brahms (more than one work by him), Monday through Thursday and Sunday evenings at 7 pm.

You really mus sit down and listen to the "Death and the Maiden" String Quartet by Schubert. Most multiple-movement works change key to 'ease up' on the musical tension. Schubert doesn't do that in this work. The D Minor never relents except for the passages that shift temporarily to D major key. Those major key portions are then metaphorically like a ray of sunshine through the clouds.

To this day what one derives from a reading of Cervantes "Don Quixote" varies by wide margins. Strauss wrote his 'take' on the original by creating a work for Large Orchestra and Soloists in a Theme and Variations form that 'riffs' on various scenes from the novel.

Tonight's soloist, Anne-Sophie Mutter, is considered “The undisputed queen of violin playing” according to The Times of London.