The Evening Concert

History is full of examples of "What if?"s. What if Mussorgsky's artist friend Viktor Hartmann had lived longer? Would we have "Pictures at an Exhibition"?

From Britten's "Violin Concerto" on "Carnegie Hall Live" to Mozart's "Kegelstatt Trio" on the Spoleto Chamber Music Festival on this week's Evening Concert".

The influence of Clara Schumann is found in particular in the first and third of the Brahms piano quartets.

Tonight's NY Philharmonic might be a metaphoric "Carl Nielsen Clarinet Concerto" sandwich....with Dance Music bread.. .. .

As a young man, Sibelius wanted to be a violinist....that didn't work out, so he became a composer who later got around to writing a concerto for the instrument.

Have you ever pondered the amount of time the previous 92 Haydn symphonies took to write, so, jest here, by comparison, what's another one (or more)?

Two powerful works composed 130 years apart share tonight's Evening Concert.

Symphonies this week as well: Shostakovich 5th, Beethoven 7th, Tchaikovsky 4th...join us for the "Evening Concert"

It's chamber music by Beethoven, early, late, and middle (career, that is).

What sounds good to us as a concerto for these two instruments (violin and oboe), likely sounds as good as the concerto for its original instruments, two harpsichords. Hear the "Violin and Oboe" version tonight.