Saint-Seans ‘5th Piano Concerto’ and ‘3rd Symphony” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Saint-Saens "5th Piano Concerto" and "3rd Symphony" are his last works in those genres.
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.
Jaap van Zweden guest conducts the CSO in music by 20th Century composers
On the program, the "5th Symphony" by Prokofiev, "5 Fragments" by Shostakovich, and other 20th Century works.
Highlights from the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition on “The Evening Concert”
The program features two complete violin concertos: Mozart's 3rd and Shostakovich's 1st and a quantity of smaller pieces and excerpts for violin.
Mozart, Saint-Saens and a special program featuring Nathan and Julie Gunn
Wolfgang's "3rd Violin Concerto", Camille's "5th Piano Concerto" and more, including Sunday's “From the Stage at Krannert Center: Song and Poetry with Nathan and Julie Gunn and the Jupiter String Quartet”.
“The Cradle That Rocked: Re-Discovering Marc Blitzstein” last episode tonight
Preceding Marc Blitzstein...there'll be chamber music by Finnish composers.
Tonight’s “New York Philharmonic This Week” program differs from the listing in Patterns Magazine
Music tonight by Franck, Chausson, Prokofiev, and Julian Anderson.
Tonight’s “Evening Concert” features the less-often-heard “Das Klagende Lied”
Mahler's "Das Klagende Lied" is less often heard because of the forces required to perform it: vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra.
Julia Fischer is featured in Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto” from Chicago on 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.
Tchaikovsky’s “Francesa da Rimini” is one of the works on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Plus, Rachmaninoff's "Isle of the Dead" and Corigliano's "One Sweet Morning"...from Shanghai
Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Dvorak and others represented on the Evening Concert this week.
"The Isle of the Dead", the "Violin Concerto in D", and the "7th Symphony" among other works by the composers mentioned above.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
