The Evening Concert

Taloa: An Exploration of Music by American Indian & Maori Composers is a 4-part series that explores the intersection between classical music and American Indian and Maori cultures.

We give thanks for "The Evening Concert" series!

Schubert's String Quartet in G dates from June, 1826, was published posthumously in 1851; it's been recorded by more than 20 different ensembles!

Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto dates from early 1786. Scholars believe that Mozart was at the piano (conducting, as well) for the premiere of this work that same Spring.

"You don't know what it means to the likes of us when we hear his footsteps behind us" - Johannes Brahms, referring to (his) Beethoven) looming presence over the musical landscape of the 19th century.*

While Debussy's "La Mer" (symphonic poem in three sections) would appear to be programmatic (music describing something) he felt otherwise about the work.....it was (paraphrasing Hanslick) "Music for Music's sake".

Tonight's performances of the 8th and 9th Symphonies of Beethoven close out the 2014 BeethovenFest in Bonn from Deutsche Welle Radio.

We continue our "BeethovenFest in Bonn" series, then an audio depiction of 'The Sea' from Debussy, "absolute music" from Brahms by way of his 3rd Symphony, and more on this week's "Evening Concert".

Surely the experience of those in WWII concentration camps had to feel like 'the end of time'. Messaien knew that feeling as he was a POW in a camp, where he wrote the "Quartet 'For the End of Time'".

The "Airborne" Symphony is a history of human flight in sound. The work is dedicated to the Eighth Air Force.