The 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.

Selections from "Swan Lake", and one of the symphonies by Shostakovich.

Music by the titans of the era: Bach, Handel, and Telemann.

Plus Beethoven's "2nd SYmphony" and Richard Strauss "Metamorphosen".

Concertmaster Guillame Moko solos in the Szymanowski "First Violin Concerto" with his Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

Music by Mozart, Bach, beethoven, and others, including Szymanowski...

At 7:00 it's the Dvorak "Sonatina for Violin and Piano" and the "String Sextet". At 8:00 the first of four episodes about composer Marc Blitzstein.

....that would be Beethoven's "Violin Concerto" and Magnus Lindberg's "Piano Concerto".

Abduraimov plays with the work that brought Van Cliburn his fame. Abduraimov's teacher was Stanislav Ioudenich who won the 11th Van Cliburn competition in 2001.

Leif Ove Andsnes is the soloist with the CSO. There's also music by Beethove and Mendelssohn on the broadcast.