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.

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Jeremy Denk plays Beethoven’s “3rd Piano Concerto”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. Jeremy Denk is the soloist in Beethoven’s “3rd Piano Concerto”. Michael Tilson Thomas guest conducts. Also on the program Arnold Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’ “G Minor Piano Quartet”.

Mendelssohn
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Itzhak Perlman plays Mendelssohn’s “E Minor Violin Concerto”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Itzhak Perlman is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s “E Minor Violin Concerto” Also on the program Strauss’ “Don Juan” and Hindemith’s “Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber”. 

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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On this week of “Evening Concert” programs: start with Strauss, end with Korngold

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto” from New York, Beethoven’s “3rd  Piano Concerto” from Chicago, Vaughan William’s “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” from Berlin, Mozart’s “22nd Piano Concerto” from San Francisco, then Sunday chamber music by Schubert from Lincoln Center and by Bach from Santa Fe.

Mozart
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Chamber music by Mozart (three works) and Arensky (one work)

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mozart’s “K. 174 Viola Quintet” on “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”.  At 8:00 you’ll hear Mozart’s “K. 498 “Kegelstatt” Trio” on the “Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”.

Brahms
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Brahms’ “Opus 115 Clarinet Quintet”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s a Deutsche Welle Festival Concert from Berlin. You’ll hear Brahms’ “Opus 115 Clarinet Quintet” and Janacek’s “Fairy Tale” pieces for cello and piano. Also on the program movements from  violin sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy and Bartok.

Shostakovich
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Shostakovich’s “Op. 65 Symphony No. 8 in C Minor

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Shostakovich’s “Op. 65 Symphony No. 8 in C Minor. Also on the program Avner Dorman‘s “Eternal Rhythm” with percussionist Cynthia Yeh.

Mozart
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Music of Mozart, Brahms, and others on this week’s “Evening Concert"s

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Mozart’s G Minor Symphony No. 25” from New York, Shostakovich’s “8th Symphony” from Chicago, Brahms’ “Op. 115 Clarinet Quintet” from Berlin, Strauss’ “Metamorphoses” from San Francisco, then Sunday chamber music by Mozart from Lincoln Center and Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” Trio by from Santa Fe.

Illinois Arts Council Agency

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