The Evening Concert

Pianist Alessio Bax is featured in the two works on tonight's first hour, with a second hour of fascinating songs by composers banned by the Nazis.

With the passing of Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur in December, the Philharmonic was prompted to assemble this "all-American-music" program from the Philharmonic's archives.

"Classic" classics from Mozart (the 4th Horn Concerto and "Haffne" Symphony) and Haydn (the trumpet Concerto, the "London" Symphony) tonight.

In addition to the Messiaen work on the program, Ravel's "Piano Concerto in G Minor" is featured with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist.

Frederic has to serve his indenture to pirates until his 21st Birthday.....but since he's born on Feb 29, he must serve..Many More Years... with comedic results.

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.