The Evening Concert

Cesar Franck (Belgian) was schooled at the Paris Conservatoire like Ravel and D'Indy.

The Shanghai Spring International Music Festival brings together the best from the West and the East...recorded in Shangha in the Spring of 2015.

This Monday starts a new 8-week series called "Shanghai Spring". It's a classical music festival that mixes tradition, the West, and almagamations, and the East.

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.