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.

Schubert
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Start your week of “Evening Concerts” with Sibelius and end it with Schubert

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Sibelius’ “2nd Symphony” from New York, Haydn’s “Trumpet Concerto” from Chicago, Gade’s “String Octet” from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” from San Francisco, then Sunday Beethoven’s “Clarinet Trio” from Lincoln Center and a “String Quartet” by Schubert from Santa Fe.

Nielsen
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Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Part Three: all Carl Nielsen

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s a Deutsche Welle Festival Concert from Schleswig-Holstein. It’s an all-Carl Nielsen program on which you’ll hear a piano-four hand version of the “3rd Symphony”, the Op. 11 “Humorous Bagatelles” and the Op. 43 “Quintet for Winds”.

Verdi
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Verdi’s “Requiem Mass”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. You’ll hear Verdi’s “Requiem Mass” with vocal soloists Barbara Frittoli, Olga Borodina, Mario Zeffiri and Ildar Abdrazakov with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra led by Music Director Riccardo Muti.

Beethoven
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Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven’s “4th Piano Concerto”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven’s “4th Piano Concerto”. Alan Gilbert conducts. Also on the program Beethoven’s “7th Symphony” and his “Overture to ‘Egmont’”.

Elgar
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A new week of “Evening Concert” programs: Beethoven to Elgar and ...

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Beethoven’s “4th Piano Concerto” from New York, Verdi’s “Requiem Mass” from Chicago, an all-Carl Nielsen program from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms” from San Francisco, then Sunday Mendelssohn string quartet” from Lincoln Center and Elgar’s “Piano Quintet” from Santa Fe.

Rachmaninoff
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Daniil Trifonov plays Rachmaninoff’s “4th Piano Concerto”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the second program in a new series from the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Daniil Trifonov is the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s “4th Piano Concerto”.  Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas conducts. Also on the program, Brahms’ “2nd Orchestral Serenade”.

Illinois Arts Council Agency

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