The Evening Concert

Four evenings of orchestral music recorded live in concert....Bach Orchestral Suites, a Haydn Cello Concerto, and more. Won't you join us?

Our first two works tonight each have two violins as part of the group, music of Korngold and Kirchner. The second hour is more eclectic, music of Poulenc, Kodaly, and Bach.

Storytelling via music and dance (Petrushka) and via a new "Violin Concerto" (Scheherazade.2).

Tonight's San Francisco Symphony program is a "travelogue": France, England, Russia, Scotland....

The "theme" is "Polish"......

All three works tonight have some connection to the sea...

We "double" again this week, as the Chicago Symphony gets two nights, their usual one, Tuesday at 7 p.m. and Monday night at 7 p.m. as part of the Carnegie Hall Live series.

Menahem Pressler, one of classical music's greatest chamber musicians is joined by the Emerson String Quartet in the Dvorak Piano Quintet Opus 81.

The entree this evening is Dvorak's "Cello Concerto", followed by an equally large helping of Tchaikovsky. . . for dessert, Bach's 1st and 2nd Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. Join us for the Audio feast, starting at 7:00 tonight.

Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven's 'autograph' cadenza in the first-movement, although Beethoven surely improvised the cadenza at it's premiere.