The Evening Concert

Haydn's Opus 77, No. 1 string quartet (1799) and Mendelssohn's Opus 44, No. 1 string quartet (1837) are separated by less than 40 years, yet there's a world of difference between the two stylistically speaking.

Isn't Sussmayr the fellow who completed Mozart's "Requiem"? Yes. Yes he is. He wrote original music, too, which you'll hear on the "Evening Concert" this week.

The Jerusalem Quartet is an Israeli string quartet formed in 1993. Their most recent CD release is Beethoven early string quartets. Tonight they play Haydn's "Bird" quartet.

Leonard Bernstein was Music Director of the Philharmonic frmo 1958 to 1969. This program features the conductor leading the Philharmonic in his compositions, perhaps the most "authentic" interpretations of musical works.

Prokofiev's "2nd Violin Concerto" dates from 1935, the same year as Berg's "Violin Concerto". Each of these works had it's premeire, synchronously so, in Spain (Prokofiev: Madird, Berg: Barcelona).

Music Director Riccardo Muti put together this program of music by Italian composers and works inspired by Italy, like Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony.

The St. Petersburg [String] Quartet formed in Russia in 1985. That's more than 100 years after the compostion of the works they play tonight on the Evening Concert.

Two "String Sextet"s by Brahms, Respighi's "Roman Festivals", Mozart's 25th Symphony and more on this week's Evening Concert.

Flutist Tara Helen O'Connor takes on the challenges of George Crumb's "The Voice of the Whale" and other exotica on the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival.

Tone Poem: a single-movement work for (usually) orchestra that illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source, like "Don Juan" by Richard Strauss, on tonight's "Evening Concert".