The Evening Concert

Shostakovich wrote his "Cello Concerto No. 1" in 1959 for MStislav Rostropovich. It is considered to be one of the most difficult cello concertos ever written.

With music by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Schubert, Beethoven and others. Anthony McGill hosts.

Monday it's "Magic of Marlboro",  Wednesday you'll hear the famous "Concierto de Aranjuez" guitar concerto, Thursday? Richard Strauss' "Oboe Concerto"

"I regard it as my best work; no other piece has poured forth from me so simply and easily. I wrote it almost at one sitting." - Tchaikovsky in a letter to his brother about his String Quartet No. 2.

Szymanowski's "First Violin Concerto" is getting more recognition as a work that deserves to be regularly heard by concert audiences. Benedetti makes a compelling case for that.

It is a rare opportunity to hear all of Smetana's "Ma Vlast" set of tones poems "under one roof" so to speak. That's tonight's "Evening Concert".

It's an all-Russian music program from the CSO tonight.

Anthony McGill host these one-hour "listens" to performances recorded at the Marlboro Music Festival.

What a week it is going to be: music from Marlboro, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York (twice, because it is so _____) and Spoleto.

No 'joke' here, Haydn's "Joke" Quartet starts tonight's "Evening Concert".