The Evening Concert

Parphrasing Brahms' "You have no idea what it's like to have HIM looking over your shoulder". The "him" is Beethoven.

Brahms' symphonies, Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, a Haydn Cello Concerto and more: this week's "Evening Concert".

The Baroque music on tonight's program is (almost all) absolute music, that is music for music's sake, while the "Pictures at an Exhibition" is a program work, an attempt to capture in sound a "program', in this case the paintings by Viktor Hartmann.

Many listener's introduction to Mahler's 5th Symphoyn is by way of hearing the "Adagietto" movement.....here that in context when you tune in tonight to hear the entire work.

Brahms' choice of the key of D Minor for the work is, according to biographers, a nod to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in D Minor and Mozart's famous D Minor Piano Concerto.

NPR  and Illinois Public Media provide coverage of the "finally-come-to-an-end" Election 2016.

We've come to associate the French word "Pathetique" with Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony...the original Russian word on the score translates closer to English "passionate' or 'emotional'. The 6th is Tchaikovsky's last symphony.

Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mahler, and others wrote the music for us to enjoy this week on the "Evening Concert"

Chamber music by Viennese masters Schubert and Zemlinsky includign Schubert's music from "Rosamunde".

Zubin turned 80 years old earlier in 2016; the Philharmonic celebrates that with this program of works from the Archive.