Eugene Levinson plays Koussevitzky’s “Double Bass Concerto” on the “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Eugene Levinson is the soloist in Koussevitzky’s “Double Bass Concerto”.  Also on the program selections from “Romeo and Juliet” by Prokofiev and Shostakovich’s “14th Symphony”.

Monday June 15: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP 20-38)

Glinka, Prokofiev, Koussevitzky, and Shostakovich

GLINKA: Overture to Russland and Ludmilla (Igor Stravinsky, conductor)

PROKOFIEV: Selections from Romeo and Juliet (Kurt Masur, conductor)

KOUSSEVITZKY: Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (Zubin Mehta, cond., Eugene Levinson, double bass)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 14 (Leonard Bernstein, cond., Teresa Kubiak, soprano, Bushkin Isser, bass)