Emanuel Ax plays Mozart’s “17th Piano Concerto” on the “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the first program in the new season of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Mozart’s “17th Piano Concerto”. Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts.  Also on the program, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and his “Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy”.  

Wednesday January 1, 7:00 PM: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO 19-20_01) (New Season)

Manfred Honeck, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17; [Encore: Frederic Chopin’s Waltz in A flat Major Op. 34, No. 1]

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy

[PSO Fill: Beethoven: Romance in F Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 50; Heinz Wallberg, conductor; Mark Huggins, violin; and Bizet: Carmen: “Les Toreadors – Prelude Act 1” Manfred Honeck, conductor]