The Evening Concert

Italian opera arias, Mahler's 3rd, Beethoven's 7th Symphony and 1st Piano Concerto plus Chamber Music on This Week's "Evening Concert"

The first work tonight takes six players; the second is a trio, the third and fifth are quintets and the 4th work tonight is a string quartet. Join us!

Ravel composed two piano concertos: the one for Left Hand Alone and tonight's gem: the Concerto in G. In fact, he composed both in the same time period 1929- 1931, with the Left Hand Concerto's debut a mere 9 days preceding the Concerto in G.

Much admired by Beethoven and Brahms, Mozart's 24th Piano Concerto (as performed by Till Fellner and the San Francisco Symphony) may be admired by you this evening at 7:00 on "The Evening Concert".

Which of these composers is the "outlier" (that is, by nation of origin....)?

Once upon a time, there was a young man who grew up to be a world famous singer. That young man is now a seasoned veteran, Thomas Hampson.

Hampson sings famous songs; Dutoit conducts; Felner plays great piano; and so does Inon Barnatan....on the Evening Concert this week.

Prolific composers of music of the Baroque: Bach and Telemann, plus Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time"

The "Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31", is a song cycle written in 1943 by English composer Benjamin Britten. It is a setting of a selection of six poems by British poets on the subject of night, including both its calm and its sinister aspects.

Listen for the "Le Marseillaise"-like march section in the first movement of Mozart's 25th Piano Concerto.