The Evening Concert on Illinois Classical
ILLINOIS CLASSICAL: The Evening Concert: JANUARY 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16, 2026
Sunday, January 11, 6:00 pm: Chamber Mus. Soc. of Lincoln Center (CMS 26-17) Danzas y Canciones
Enrique Fernandez Arbos: Tres piezas originales en estilo espanol for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 1
Kristin Lee, violin; Clive Greensmith, cello; Soyeon Kate Lee, piano
Manuel de Falla: Siete canciones populares espanolas for Voice and Piano
Vanessa Becerra, soprano; Soyeon Kate Lee, piano
Gaspar Cassado: Trio in C major for Piano, Violin, and Cello
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Danbi Um, violin; Clive Greensmith, cello
Sunday, January 11, 7:00 pm: Fiesta! With Elbio Barilari (FST 25-42)
Great Orchestral Mexican Music: Julián Carrillo’s Symphony No. 2
Mexican composer and pioneer Julián Carillo is best known for his microtonal, experimental music. Aside from his musical laboratory, he was also an amazing post-romantic composer in the vein of Richard Strauss and others. Fiesta presents this other side, the romantic side of Julián Carrillo. (contact trauth@illinois.edu for details).
Monday, January 12, 7:00 pm: The New York Philharmonic (NYP 26-17) Playlist: There, in the Night
Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake (Excerpt). NYP/Alan Gilbert, conductor
Mendelssohn: Overture & Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. NYP/George Szell, conductor
Ives: Central Park in the Dark. NYP/Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night). NYP/Pierre Boulez, conductor
Julia Adolphe: Dark Sand, Shifting Light. NYP/Alan Gilbert, conductor
Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale. NYP/Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain. NYP/Alan Gilbert, conductor
Berlioz: Au Cimetiere: Clair de Lune (“In the Cemetary: Moonlight”) from Les Nuits d’ete (The Summer Nights), Op. 7. Joyce DiDonato, mezzo; NYP/Alan Gilbert, conductor
Mahler: IV: Night Music: Andante amoroso from Symphony No. 7. NYP/Lorin Maazel, conductor
Tuesday, January 13, 7:00 pm: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO 26-03) Canellakis and Gerstein
[CSO fill: Gioachino Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville. Sir Georg Solti, conductor 1972 (London)]
Augusta Read Thomas: Brio
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54. Kirill Gerstein, piano
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Wednesday, January 14,7:00 pm: European Broadcasting Union (EBU 25-11)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Mieczysław Weinberg: Symphony No. 2 and Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Thursday, January 15,7:00 pm: Prairie Performances with Mel Miller
Friday, January 16, 7:00 pm: Heifetz On Air [145 (66)] Different Places, Distinct Spaces
Mstislav Rostropovich: Humoreske, Op. 5. Mo Mo, cello; Hsin-Ciao Liao, piano
J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: VI. Gigue. Noémie Raymond-Friset, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30, No. 2: Allegro con brio
Yebin Yoo, violin; Jingxuan Zhang, piano
Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Air and Dances (arr. for string quartet): Italiana [excerpt]
SoHyun Ko, violin; Minchae Kim, violin; Jerome McCoy, viola; Dilshod Narzillaev, cello
Turlough O’Carolan: Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór. Nigel Armstrong, violin; Peter Blanchette, guitar
Mark O’Connor: Appalachia Waltz. Kenneth Naito, violin; Adam Savage, viola; Jared Blajian, cello
Trad. Arr. Danish Quartet: The Peat Dance. Theo Bockhorst, violin; Masato Chang, violin;
John Harry Clark, viola; Benjamin Doane, cello
Jay Ungar: Ashokan Farewell. Maura Shawn Scanlin, violin; Robin Williams, guitar; Linda Williams, banjo
J.S. Bach: Two Part Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782. Noémie Raymond-Friset, cello; Marlène Ngalissamy, bassoon and Tomaso Vitali: Chaconne in G minor. Ji-Won Song, violin; Stefan Petrov, piano
