The Evening Concert

What's so "Great" about Schubert's "Great" C Major Symphony on tonight's "Evening Concert"?

Ballet music by Russian compsores on tonight's Evening Concert: 1892's "Nutcracker" and the 1911 version of "Petrushka".

Schubert and Bruckner are linked by their association with Vienna, and symphonic writing. Schubert's 4th Symphony dates from 1819, and, from where we sit today, Bruckner's 6th Symphony came a mere 60 years (1879) later.

Salzburg Festival starts our week, music of Schubert, followed on Tuesday by the CSO: Ingo Metzmacher conducts.

Three works for piano-four-hands played by six pianists!

Somehow, as a youth I thought that the 1812 Overture was written and first performed in the year 1812! It's a great and fun work still 200-plus years later... and 150-plus years since Tchaikovsky wrote it.

It's semi-autobiographical. It's has the emotional content of the  proverbial "tortured artist". And, it's "fantastic", and it's a Symphony.

Leonard Slatkin has always been a champion of American classical music.

Tonight we have an all-Mozart program that features Dutch pianist Kristian Bezuidenout.

An All-Mozart program from Salzburg starts the week (Monday night) and Mendelssohn's D Minor Piano Trio closes the week (Sunday night).