The Evening Concert

A "Festive" {Overture} Piano Concerto on a Night (on a Bald Mountain?)

One of the more difficult 'things' to judge in music is the amount of 'nationalist" elements there are in a piece. Clearly Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich are Russian composers who share a "Russian sense" yet they are so different in style, as well.

If music could be heard"in color" then the works on tonight's program would be 'in living color'...

Tonight's concert might be deemed to be about the depiction of "Time" in music: the life and death of an artist, a philosopher, and a new notion of it (time).

Music of Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and others on this week's "Evening Concert" series.

Piano + string quartet is the expected instrumentation for the piano quintet. Vaughan Williams used one of each: violin, viola, cello, double bass. here the sonic difference in that chamber ensemble tonight.

Sometimes summertime and Sousa (and American [classical] music) are simply satisfying.

Mozart and Bruckner shared a home country: Austria... is there an audio lineage between the two? Tune in tonight at 7:00 to find out.

One of tonight's works is popularly known as "The Clock"  because of the "ticking" rhythm throughout the second movement.

From an audio perspective there is not a large difference between cantata and a Mass: vocal soloists, chorus, orchestra: beautiful music to be sure.