The Evening Concert

The three piano trios on the program were all composed in the 19th century, thus having similarities in sound and texture, but with different character dependenet upon who composed it.

Music by Dvorak, Bach, Haydn and others, including Tchaikovsky and Brahms (more than one work by him), Monday through Thursday and Sunday evenings at 7 pm.

You really mus sit down and listen to the "Death and the Maiden" String Quartet by Schubert. Most multiple-movement works change key to 'ease up' on the musical tension. Schubert doesn't do that in this work. The D Minor never relents except for the passages that shift temporarily to D major key. Those major key portions are then metaphorically like a ray of sunshine through the clouds.

To this day what one derives from a reading of Cervantes "Don Quixote" varies by wide margins. Strauss wrote his 'take' on the original by creating a work for Large Orchestra and Soloists in a Theme and Variations form that 'riffs' on various scenes from the novel.

Tonight's soloist, Anne-Sophie Mutter, is considered “The undisputed queen of violin playing” according to The Times of London.

Heard Mahler's "Adagietto" but not the entire work that the movement comes from? Tonight is your chance to hear Mahler's 5th in int's entirety, uninterrupted by commercials, on your public radio station.

Liszt: Hungarian. Budapest Festival Orchestra: Hungarian. Ivan Fischer: Hungarian. A perfect triumvirate. Starting at 7:00 tonight, on the "Evening Concert".

Marc-Andre Hamelin plays Liszt's "Piano Concerto No. 1", The CSO plays Mahler's 5th, Anne-Sophie Mutter plays the brahms' "Violin Concerto" in San Francisco and so much more on this week's "Evening Concert"

Brandenburgs numbers 2, 4 & 6, plus a Mozart Viola Quintet arae the featured works chamber music works on tonight's program.

Salonen has championed the music of Messiaen, in particular the "Turangalila" Symphony, which he's conducted with the CSO, and now the NYP.