The Evening Concert

Edo de Waart says he'd take all of Beethoven's works with him to a (proverbial) desert island. Find out why he says that tonight.

This week's "Evening Concert" features, in order, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among others.

Strings and piano (separately and together) are a sound that is well liked....

Counterpoint (in music) is defined as "the relationship between voices (or instruments) that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour (essentially independent melodies interacting with one another). "Counterpoint" is the copmpositional device common to both Bach's Keyboard Concerto and Schoenberg's Piano Concerto found on tonight's program.

Is it an "accident of history" or choice of Brahms to compose his 1st Piano Concerto in the dramatic key of D Minor?

Is Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, "Leningrad" an homage or is it something else?

"The G-major Concerto took two years of work, you know." - composer Maurice Ravel on his Piano Concerto in G. Read on to find out more.

It must be "The Week of the Piano Concerto" on the Evening Concert"!

2006 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Young Artists Award Winer Ingrid Fliter returns to the Festival to play Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto.

"O, Fortuna" might be the most recognized music by Carl Orff. Hear the enire work that "O, Fortune" comes from: "Carmina Burana" on tonight's "Evening Concert".