The Evening Concert

Boulez passed away earlier this year. As Music Director of the Philharmonic for a period in the 1970s he recorded with the orchestra many of his works and other more famous works of the 20th century.

Brahms wrote his First Piano Concerto in 1858 which is exactly 100 years before tonight's soloist Bronfman was born!

This is an 'encore' presentation of a concert from November 2015. . .

"A player of uncommon sensitivity" - Alex Ross, in "The New Yorker" describing pianist Inon Barnatan

Inon Barnatan solos with MSO in the Piano Concerto in A Minor of Schumann, plus other great works, all week long on the "Evening Concert".

University of Illinois’ String Quartet-in-Residence, the Jupiter Quartet plays Dvorak’s “American” Quartet on tonight's "Evening Concert"

It's a program featuring Shostakovich's 13th Symphony.

Gustavo conducts Gustav: Dudamel conducts Mahler: tonight's "Evening Concert"

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"I am Richard Strauss". Those were the words, in English, that Strauss uttered to the American soldiers who came knocking on his door during WWII...out of the encounter came a comission to write a concerto!