The Evening Concert

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.

Peter Serkin is the son of the great Rudolf Serkin. He's established himself as a consumate artist like his father....he'll play Mozart's 19th Piano Concerto on tonight's "Evening Concert".

The accounts vary as to whether Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto was initially well-received or not....regardless, the work is now a standarad of the piano concerto repertoire; hear it tonight.

Would it be accurate to apply the label 'wunderkind' to Jan Lisiecki? He's only 21 years old, and at the age of 16 signed a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon!

Beethoven's 4th [Piano Concerto (PC)], Tchaikovsky's 1st PC, Mozart's 19th PC, and much more on this week's "Evening Concert".

If instrumental music is an attempt to capture emotion in sound, is the Brahms 1st Piano Trio an homage to Schumann?

Find yourself a comfortable place to sit while you enjoy the longest symphony ever written, Mahler's 3rd Symphony....