The Evening Concert

"It is terrifying, and paralyzing, as the strands of sound disintegrate ... in ceasing, we lose it all. But in letting go, we have gained everything." - Leonard Bernstein on Mahler's Ninth Symphony, tonight's featured work with the San Francsico Symphony.

What is it with "5th Symphonies" (Beethoven, Dvorak, Mahler, others) being such amazing works? Tonight's Mahler 5th Symphony includes the "time-stopping Adagietto" movement.

Anne-Sophie Mutter plus Berlin Philharmonic + Sir Simon Rattle = Bruch's 1st Violin Concerto and it's beauty.

It looks like it's the "Week of the 'Violin Concerto'" on the Evening Concert!

Tonight is the first episode in the new season of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

Music Scholars consider Bach's B Minor Mass to be one of the greatest works ever written.

Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto almost never happened.

A purely musical melodrama, Berlioz' "Symphonie fantastique" describes the life of an artist, replete with unrequited love, witches, guillotines and colorful hallucinations.

Now you and I know: Robert Schumann (best we know) abhorred applause between movements of a concerto, thus, the continuous nature of the "Cello Concerto". Hear the work tonight.

Starting Wednesday, April 1, we welcome the new season of the San Francisco Symphony with Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto, plus much more on this week's "Evening Concert"