The Evening Concert

Two hundred years. That is how long the score for the Haydn Cello Concerto #1 was 'lost'.     The score was discovered in the Prague National Museum in 1961, the work having been written (started for certain) in 1761.

It has the "reputation of being one of the most technically challenging piano concertos" ever written....it's the "Rach 3" [Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto]

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"