The Evening Concert

Once upon a time, there was a young man who grew up to be a world famous singer. That young man is now a seasoned veteran, Thomas Hampson.

Hampson sings famous songs; Dutoit conducts; Felner plays great piano; and so does Inon Barnatan....on the Evening Concert this week.

Prolific composers of music of the Baroque: Bach and Telemann, plus Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time"

The "Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31", is a song cycle written in 1943 by English composer Benjamin Britten. It is a setting of a selection of six poems by British poets on the subject of night, including both its calm and its sinister aspects.

Listen for the "Le Marseillaise"-like march section in the first movement of Mozart's 25th Piano Concerto.

It's a potent mix of pianistic virtuosity and mastery of the orchestral score when pianist Jeremy Denk joins Michael Tilson Thomas and the CSO in Bethoven's Third Piano Concerto.

Leif Ove Andsnes embarked a few short years ago on playing all the Beethoven piano concertos while conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, in recordings and on tour. You can hear some of the magnificent results tonight.

It's a piano-concerto-lover's week on the "Evening Concert".

The "Art of the Fugue" is "an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject". This week we'll hear the first half of this work written in the last decade of the composer's life.

We know the exact date of completion of the "Bassoon Concerto" of Mozart: 4 Jun 1774. He was 18 years old! Hear the work tonight on the Evening Concert.