The Evening Concert

Let's thank Felix Mendelssohn and Joseph Joachim for presenting Beethoven's "Violin Concerto" in 1844 following decades where it wasn't played at all...so we could have it today.

Plus, Rachmaninoff's "Isle of the Dead" and Corigliano's "One Sweet Morning"...from Shanghai

"The Isle of the Dead", the "Violin Concerto in D", and the "7th Symphony" among other works by the composers mentioned above.

Tonight it's later-career chamber music by Mozart, the Wind Serenade, K.388 and the Piano Quintet, K. 478, and "Mack the Knife on Broadway".

Ax solos with the New York Philharmonic led by Alan Gilbert.

From Dallas, Daniel Muller-Schott is the soloist in Dvorak's "Cello Concerto".

While not as popular as the other Mahler symphonies, the 7th is asonic journey equal to the others.

It took Mendelssohn six years to complete. Do you think it took Christian Tetzlaff six years to learn to play Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto"? Perhaps. The answer depends on what age he started to learn the work.

Could it be that the concerto form of writing music is the most popular? It certainly is with listeners. You'll hear two famous concertos amongst other works on this week's "Evening Concert".

Starvinsky's "A Soldier's Tale" (L'Histoire du soldat) had it's premiere in September of 1918. It sounds as new today as it did then.