The Evening Concert

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.

Coincidence? Bruckner's 9th Symphony is in the 'key' of D Minor as is Beethoven's 9th. . .find out tonight.

It's "Seven Degrees of Gil Shaham"....Gil was born in Urbana, and returns here Thursday night April 23rd at Krannert Center for a Bach recital: tonight, it's Prokofiev's 2nd VIolin Concerto.

No confusion here! You'll hear the San Francisco Symphony twice this week: on Monday on "Carnegie Hall Live" and on Wednesday as part of the San Francisco Symphony radio broadcast series.

Juan Arriaga is often called the "Spanish Mozart". Hear his music, and then compare it to Mozart's, which follows the Arriaga on "The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center". Then stay tuned for "The Santa fe CHamber Music Festival".

Same composer, two completely different works: the Nielsen Violin Concerto is "neo-romantic" while the Flute Concerto is (1920s) "modern". Both are on tonight's New York Philharmonic broadcast.

"It is terrifying, and paralyzing, as the strands of sound disintegrate ... in ceasing, we lose it all. But in letting go, we have gained everything." - Leonard Bernstein on Mahler's Ninth Symphony, tonight's featured work with the San Francsico Symphony.