The Evening Concert

Classic Mornings

7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday

Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.

Debussy
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Fiesta!

Sunday night April 30 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear chamber music by Debussy and Ravel on the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 8:00 you’ll hear Latin American classical music by Argentine composers García Morillo and López Buchardo on “Fiesta”.

Handel
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Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts

Thursday night April 27 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s a Deutsche Welle Festival Concert. You’ll hear Collegium Marianum play music of Telemann, Vivaldi, Handel, Leclair, and Marais from the “Early Music Festival in Herne”.

Beethoven
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San Francisco Symphony

Wednesday night April 26 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the fourth program in a new series from the San Francisco Symphony led by their new Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen.  You’ll hear Beethoven’s “3rd Piano Concerto” and Richard Strauss’ “Symphony for Wind Instruments”.

Bruckner
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast

Tuesday night April 25 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Bruckner’s “8th Symphony” with guest conductor Christian Theilemann. Also on the program Wagner’s “Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde”.

Shostakovich
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The New York Philharmonic This Week

Monday night April 24 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Shostakovich’s “5th Symphony” and Kodaly’s “Dances of Galanta”.  Also on the program Berg’s “Violin Concerto” with soloist Christian Ferras.

Rachmaninoff
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Fiesta!

Sunday night April 23 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 you’ll hear Rachmaninoff’s “2nd Suite for Two Pianos” on the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”. At 8:00 you’ll hear nature interpreted in Latin American classical music on “Fiesta”.

Mendelssohn
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Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s a Deutsche Welle Festival Concert. You’ll hear the opening concert from last year’s Rheingau Music Festival with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and MDR Leipzig Radio Chorus led by Alain Altinoglu in Mendelssohn’s symphony-cantata “Hymn of Praise”.

Schubert
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San Francisco Symphony

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the third program in a new series from the San Francisco Symphony led by their new Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen.  You’ll hear Schubert’s “5th Symphony” and the US premiere of Bryce Dessner’s “Violin Concerto”.

Dvorak
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Coleridge-Taylor’s “Ballade” for Orchestra and Dvorak’s “6th Symphony”. Also on the program Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” with soloist Joelle Harvey.

Tchaikovsky
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The New York Philharmonic This Week

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Wagner’s “Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin” and Tchaikovsky’s “4th Symphony”. Also on the program Julia Adolphe’s “Viola Concerto” with soloist Cynthia Phelps.

Illinois Arts Council Agency

These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.