The Evening Concert

Famous songs by Schubert, plus a famous 'musical portrait' of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet from "the Philharmonic".

What 'hasn't" yet been said about Beethoven's "5th Symphony"? Only this: if you've not ever listened to it from start to finish, as in, stop doing whatever you are doing and just listen, then you owe it to yourself to do that tonight, starting at 7 pm.

Bruckner's "Te Deum" was completed in 1884, just a few years before he started the composition of his "9th Symphony".

Meet Alice Sara Ott, if you haven't already. The 28-year-old German pianist's record label Deutsche Grammaphon says that she "..stands among the most compelling artists of her generation".

Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Bruckner's 9th Symphony, and other large works are on this week's schedule. Please join us!

The fourth movement of the Beethoven String Quartet No., 6 is marked "Questo pezzo si deve trattare colla più gran delicatezza" ("This piece is to be played with the greatest delicacy".)

In Mahler's Ninth Symphony there is a section in the first movement that Alban Berg asserted was a "vision of the hereafter."

Vaughan Williams wrote his "Fantasia" in 1910 with a premiere later that same year; the Walton Violin Concerto dates from 1938-39 and had it's premeiere in Cleveland with the dedicatee Heifetz as soloist, Rodzinski conducting.

Alson on the program tonight strongly emotive music by Shostakiovch: his 7th Symphony.

More from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra series, including music by Ravel, Scriabin and Prokofiev.