The Evening Concert

There's Baroque chamber music at 7:00 and Chopin, Rachmaninoff and others' piano music from the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival at 8:00 on tonight's Evening Concert.

"The Five" was a group of Russian composers in the 19th century. Two of these (Mussorgsky, Borodin, Shostakovich) were in the group. One wasn't.

In the absence of corroborating evidence the 'story' appears to be true, about Mozart and Allegri's "Miserere", that...

Tonight's "Evening Concert" features works written within ten years of each other, the period from

Tangential to the conductor's work of conducting is selecting music to create a "program". Music Director Edo de Waart has put together

This week's "Evening Concert" (Monday, Feb. 2 - Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015) features three other "Three B's": Britten, Bruckner, and Borodin as well as the familiar "Three B's": Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.

Listeners in Schumann's time thought that his "Symphonic Etudes" were wild and crazy. Ligeti's "Etudes" qualify.....and by contrast, Chopin Mazurkas. . .

As a pianist in his twenties, he placed fourth in the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Andre-Michel Schub placed first). Two years later he won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition.

How did Max Bruch (German composer) come to write the famous "Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra"? It turns out that

Prokofiev made five trips to Chicago in his lifetime. During Prokofiev’s last trip to Chicago, in January 1937, he led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in selections from his new, still-unstaged ballet, Romeo and Juliet. Tune in tonight at 7:00 to hear Riccardo Muti's "take" on this classic work.