The Evening Concert

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...

While one composer sought to put (paraphraseing) the world in a Symphony (Mahler) the other sought to hone his musical language to creat a one-movement Symphony (Sibelius).

Art: a creation of the human mind that moves us in some way and that upon repeated interaction with the "art" yields enjoyment and perhaps even something 'new' each time, like these two Beethoven symphonies.

French violinist Renaud Capucon is well-established as an artist of the highest calibre. He'll be the soloist in the one and only "Violin Concerto" by Brahms.

World-renowned pianist Li Jian, Dean of the Piano Department at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, i sfeatured in music of Mussorgsky and others.

This week's "Evening Concert" is full of famous works recorded live in concert, including the Brahms' "Violin Concerto".

Flutist Tara Helen O'Connor is featured in the work by Poulenc; Alisa Weilerstein in the Chopin.