Chamber Music of Saint-Saens, Faure, Rossini, and others on tonight’s :“Evening Concert”
Chamber music with piano first hour: Saint-Saens 1st Cello Sonata and Faure's 1st Piano Quartet, then music of Rossini and others.
The Evening Concert
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.
Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet” and Shostakovich’s “5th” on the “Evening Concert”
It's a program that differs from the listing in Patterns Magazine: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and a surprise.
Susanna Malkki guest conducts the San Francisco Symphony on the “Evening Concert”
Music of Griffes, Brahms and Bartok....Jeremy Denk is the soloist
Riccardo Muti conducts Bolero on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
"Exotic" is the adjective that best describes portions of tonight's "Evening Concert" with Ravel's "Bolero" and Ginastera's "Harp Concerto".
The Bach Collegium Japan performs music of Vivaldi, Handel and Bach on the “Evening Concert”
It's no surprise that the music of Vivaldi, Handel and Bach sound similar as they were born within 10 years of each other, with Handel and Bach born in the same year (1685)!
Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Ravel and other composer’s featured on this week’s “Evening Concert”
A Brandenburg concerto and a cantata by Bach, "Bolero" by Ravel, the 2nd Symphony frmo Brahms, and other famous and not-as-famous works on this week's "Evening Concert".
String Quartets by Mendelssohn and Janacek on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
How different, yet how similar string quartets can be, both the compositions themselves and the groups that perform them, tonight being no exception with a quartet by Janacek and one by Mendelssohn...
Emanuel Ax plays Brahms’ “2nd Piano Concerto” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
The 2nd Piano Concerto came 22 years after the "1st Piano Concerto". Brahms was the soloist at the premiere in November of 1881.
The San Francisco Symphony plays Mahler’s 7th Symphony on the “Evening Concert”
To Sibelius, Mahler expressed the belief that "The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything."*
“Muti conducts Tchaikovsky and Debussy” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Conductors put together 'programs' that have a sometimes apparent, sometimes not theme. Tonight's is "Program Music", music without words that has a title and attempts to convey a musical description of something...like "The Sea" or "Fate".
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
