The Evening Concert

The Violin Concerto of Stravinsky was written in 1931 and premiered the same year in Berlin with the composer conducting, violinist Samuel Dushkin, the person who sought the work, as soloist.

It is believable that Dvorak was inspired to take on and complete a request to compose a "Cello Concerto" after hearing Victor Herbert's 2nd Cello Concerto.

Brahms Opus 34 Quintet for String Quartet and Piano was written in 1864 and -65 and is moedeled after Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet.

A Quintet for Strings and Piano by Brahms, the one and only Cello Concerto of Dvorak, and more on thie week's "Evening Concert".

Hear Borodin's "Nocturne" in it's original string quartet version, Faure's "Elegy" for cello and piano, and more chamber music on tonight's "Evening Concert" at 7:00 p.m.

March 26 of 2015 was Maestro Boulez's 90th birthday, and to celebrate that the folks at the Philharmonic put together this retrospective of the Maestro's work with the Philharmonic.

If you, like me, aren't as familiar with the Bruckner symphonies as you could be, it is suggested that we start with the 7th Symphony, the symphony most famous in the composer's lifetime, tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert.

The etymological origin of "Pathetique", from pathetic, is from Late Latin and earlier Greek....having to do with the emotions, a certain sensitivity....

Haochen Zhang is the first prize winner of the 2009 13th Van Cliburn Internatinal Piano Competition described by Scott Cantrell of the Dalals Morning News as "...the musician I'd walk across town to hear."

Brahms by the Shanghai Quartet, Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony by the CSO, and more on this week's "Evening Concert".