The Evening Concert

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.

Alban Berg's "Violin Concerto" is subtitled "To the Memory of an Angel"? Who was the 'angel'?

This week on “The Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Berg’s “Violin Concerto” from Milwaukee, Prokofiev’s “Romeo And Juliet” Suite 4th from the CSO, Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy” Violin Concerto from Pittsburgh, Beethoven’s

Russian composers with different sensibilities: Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff? Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL FM-90.9, Rachmaninoff’s “Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos” is the featured work on "The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center". At 8:00 you'll hear Beethoven's 30th Piano Sonata and

Did you know Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" served as the inspiration for Beethoven's 9th Symphony? Beethoven had been meaning to put the poem to music since....

Can you compare the "greatness" of two classical music pieces? Which would you enjoy more? Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto or Dvorak's 8th Symphony?

What have Latino Composers in the U.S. been up to? Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert, "Fiesta!" presents music of