The Evening Concert

The Belcea Quartet won the Gramophone Award for Best Debut Recording in 2001. Hear them play a late string quartet by Haydn on tonight's "Evening Concert".

Pianist Jeffrey Kahane leads the NY Philharmonic from the piano bench in two of Mozart's 20+ piano concertos.

Tonight you'll hear Esa-Pekka Salonen lead the LA Philharmonic in Beethoven's really lenghty (not one note too many, though!) 3rd Symphony.

Perhaps someone will write a pHd on "Why is it that so often the 5th Symphony of many a famous composer is a masterpiece and often an iconic work?"

It is more than apocrypha to say that Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" are an attempt to capture the visual artwork of the "Exhibition", artwork of his recently deceased friend Viktor Hartmann.

Mussorgsky's "Pictures" from Milwaukee; Nielsen's 5th from Chicago; Beethoven's 3rd from LA, and more.

Sibelius' op. 56 String Quartet premiered in 1910. A review in the "Helsingin Sanomat" noted: "The composition attracted a great deal of attention...." You can give it your attention tonight at 7:00!

Leila Josefowicz is the violin soloist in guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonene's "Violin Concerto" with the new York Philharmonic

Tonight's LA Philharmonic is a program of "Program" music, which is music without words, often with a descriptive rather than generic title, meant to evoke the feeling, the place, the situation, in sound.

An all-Mozart program from the Chocago Symphony Orchestra: the Requiem; Piano Concerto 24; Bassoon Concerto