7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday
Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.
Sibelius' op. 56 String Quartet premiered in 1910. A review in the "Helsingin Sanomat" noted: "The composition attracted a great deal of attention...." You can give it your attention tonight at 7:00!
Leila Josefowicz is the violin soloist in guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonene's "Violin Concerto" with the new York Philharmonic
Tonight's LA Philharmonic is a program of "Program" music, which is music without words, often with a descriptive rather than generic title, meant to evoke the feeling, the place, the situation, in sound.
An all-Mozart program from the Chocago Symphony Orchestra: the Requiem; Piano Concerto 24; Bassoon Concerto
There's no agreement on how it is that so many '5th symphonies' end up being such iconic works. Hear Tchaikovsky's 5th tonight.
A 5th Symphony, a Requiem, a Suite for orchestra, a Violin Concerto and more from Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.
The Pacifica Quartet plays Beethoven's 6th Quartet; Wu Han and Juho pojhonen play a Mozart Four-Hand Sonata; Thomas Hampson sings lieder.
Ironically so, this program was scheduled before Maestro Masur's death in December, 2015!
Dvorak's 7th Symphony and Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto with rising star pianist Behzod Abduraimov from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
It's is the final "State of the Union" address by Pres. Obama, live from Washington, D.C.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
