The Evening Concert

This week's "Evening Concert" includes a special broadcast of "The Pirates of Penzance", Ravel's "Piano Concerto in G", Haydn's "Trumpet Concerto" and more.

For the listener, there is a clarity heard in the chamber-sized performances of Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos" that is not available in the orchestral versions...hear the first and third of those six Concertos tonight.

Three days. That's all it took. Shostakovich wrote the "Festive Overture" in 1954 for the 37th Anniversary of the 'October Revolution' in three days!

"Any" work of music begins with the first note. Seems obvious. Listeners are less aware of that first sound than players...Sibelius' "Violin Concerto" has "that" first note...and from that springs the entire work.

Dvorak was inspired to write his "Violin Concerto" after meeting Joseph Joachim. There's no clear historical record indicating why Joachim never performed it.

".....acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music." - a description of Richard Goode frmo the Los Angeles Chamber orchestra website.

the 'more' = SIbelius' Violin Concerto, two of Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos" and other less well-known works. . .

Wu Han and David Finckel are the co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center frequently collaborating in live performance on this program.

Mozart's Piano Concerto plus Bruckner's 3rd Symphony (in D Minor), same key as Beethoven's 9th Symphony, which is not an accident.

Pianist Trpceski is praised for his impeccable technique and delicate expression, among other attributes...