The Evening Concert

Co-Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, David Finckel and Wu Han are featured in the Schubert Trio.

Upon hearing the first performances critics and audiences were unsure of what to make of Mahler's 1st Symphony, which sounds 'tame' when compared with some works of it's era of composition...

Levit has emerged as a 'star' in today's universe of pianists....April of 2015 the L.A. Times described him as "the best Russian pianist you've never heard...yet"

It's the "Pathetique" Symphony (the 6th) by Tchaikovsky and Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto from the CSO.

Works by Mussorgsky, Debussy and Wagner..."pictorial' music, so to speak.....

Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto makes two appearances this week in an unintended synchronicity of scheduling!

Thirty years separate the two featured works on tonight's "Evening Concert": the "Clarinet Quintet" is a late work by Brahms, published 1891, the "Piano Quartet No.2", published 1861.

The two symphonies on tonight's program come from later in each composer's career. They are both considered masterworks of the form and of their era. Enjoy!

Initially violinist Leopold Auer was critical of the solo writing in the Tchaikovsky 'VIolin Concerto'. Years later Auer changed his mind and became one of the works fervent champions.*

Zukerman is ‘soloist one’ in Bach’s “Double Violin Concerto” and the only soloist in Telemann’s “Viola Concerto”, and he conducts music of Mozart, as well.