The Evening Concert

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.

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.