The Evening Concert

Two works for piano-four-hands on the first hour of the program, then Schumann's famous (rightly so!) "Piano Quartet".

It really is a true story, about the US soldier who invited Strauss to write an oboe concerto.

Rodrigo wrote the concerto in 1939......Tchaikovsky wrote his work, the Manfred Symphony in 1885 after the Lord Byron poem of the same name.

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.