The Evening Concert

The program has two "First" symphonies on it: one by Brahms and the other by Mahler.

Theodore Thomas founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra before the year 1900...and we'll hear him in an early recording with the CSO tonight.

Lang Lang plays Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto with the Shanghai Symphony on the "Evening Concert"

Lang Lang plays with the Shanghai Symphony, Jaa van Zweden conducts the Dallso Symphony in Brahms & Mahler's 1st symphonies.

The University of Illinois' String-Quartet-in-Residence, the Juptier Quartet plays perhaps Hugo Wolf's most famous work and you'll hear the first of a short, one-month series of fun programs "This is Cabaret: Ann Hampton Calloway and Friends: tonight: her friend Steve Tyrell is her guest.

Waltz away that 2016 hangover with this special morning-time "Evening Concert" from Vienna.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's an end-of-year "Jazz-Fest" by way of NPR's annual "Toast of the Nation".

We've set aside this evening for Hanukkah programs...not at the start of the season...you might miss these for your celebrations, and not too late in the season...

If there are Two piano concertos by Ravel on tonight's broadcast does that make it twice as good as if there was only one of those concertos on the program?

Bernard Labadie conducts the CSO, the Chicago Symphony Chorus and vocal soloists in Parts I, II & III of Handel's Messiah.