The Evening Concert

Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony was his last......some writers suggest there is an autobiographical 'story' told in this music.

19-year old "wunderkind" violinist Zhang Jinru is featured on tonight's episode of "Shanghai Spring"

Another episode of "Shanghai Spring" leads off the "Evening Concert" for the week of September 12, 2016.

Chmaber Music Society of Lincoln Center Co-Artistic Directors David Finckel, cello, and Wu Han, piano, play Beethoven's A Major Cello Sonata.

Ten Years. Depending on your relation to those ten years, that could be a long time, or a shorter time....ten years (only!) separate the First and Fourth Piano Concertos of Beethoven (1797 - 1807).

The "Rach" 3rd Piano Concerto was written Summer of 1909 and is considered to be one of the most dificult of all piano concertos!

Beethoven's 7th Symphony was written 1811-12 (only) two decades after Haydn's 93rd Symphony (1791). What a difference twenty years makes!

In Spring 2015 the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra was one of the guest ensembles at the Shaghai Spring International Festival...they play SIbelius' 5th Symphony on tonight's concert.

This week on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear “Sibelius’ 5th Symphony” on the “Shanghai Spring International Music Festival”, Beethoven’s “Seventh” [Symphony] from Chicago, Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto from Pittsburgh, Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto from New York and Sunday . . . chamber music from Lincoln Center and the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival.

Dvorak's Opus 65 Trio was written in 1883 when th ecomposer was in his early 40s, so it is a work of 'mature' Dvorak...