U of I’s String-Quartet-in-Residence, the Jupiter Quartet, performs Thomas Ades’ “Arcadiana”
Arcadia = any real or imaginary place offering peace and simplicity. Ades' "Arcadiana" posits that it offers the same. Tune in tonight at 7:00 to find out.
The Evening Concert
7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday
Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.
Yefim Bronfman plays Beethoven’s 1st and 4th Piano Concertos with the New York Philharmonic
Beethoven's 1st (Piano Concerto) was completed after the 2nd (Piano Concerto) which was started first, ten years previously and the 4th (Piano Concerto) was completed within the next ten years. Your wait between the 1st and 4th concertos will be much shorter!
Beethoven’s ‘Violin Romances’ and 7th Symphony from the San Francisco Symphony
The concerto-style of composition (a solo instrument versus the ensemble) clearly works for violin with 'sound evidence' in Beethoven's Romances for Violin and Orchestra. Does it work for electronica?
Semyon Bychkov conducts the CSO in Mahler’s 3rd Symphony on tonight’s Evening Concert
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything". - Gustav Mahler
“A Furtive Tear” and other famous arias on tonight’s “Evening Concert” from “Carnegie Hall Live”
Nicole Cabell, Joyce Didonato and Lawrence Brownlee sing Italian opera arias and duets.
“Carnegie Hall Live”, the CSO, the San Francisco Symphony, The New York Philharmonic This Week
Italian opera arias, Mahler's 3rd, Beethoven's 7th Symphony and 1st Piano Concerto plus Chamber Music on This Week's "Evening Concert"
“Czech Masters” from “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center” and Weber Clarinet Quintet
The first work tonight takes six players; the second is a trio, the third and fifth are quintets and the 4th work tonight is a string quartet. Join us!
New York Philharmonic Artist-in-Residence Inon Barnatan plays Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in G”
Ravel composed two piano concertos: the one for Left Hand Alone and tonight's gem: the Concerto in G. In fact, he composed both in the same time period 1929- 1931, with the Left Hand Concerto's debut a mere 9 days preceding the Concerto in G.
Mozart! 24th Piano Concerto, San Francisco Symphony on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Much admired by Beethoven and Brahms, Mozart's 24th Piano Concerto (as performed by Till Fellner and the San Francisco Symphony) may be admired by you this evening at 7:00 on "The Evening Concert".
Dutoit Conducts the CSO in music of Ravel, Debussy, Strauss and Salonen on the “Evening Concert”
Which of these composers is the "outlier" (that is, by nation of origin....)?
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
