Joshua Bell plays Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto” with the San Francisco Symphony

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director. Pablo Heras-Casado guest conducts.  Joshua Bell is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto in D Major”. Also on the program, John Adams’ “Chamber Symphony” and Schoenberg’s early, tonal, “Chamber Symphony No. 1.”

Wednesday May 25: San Francisco Symphony (SFS 16-08)

Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor  

John Adams (b. 1947): Chamber Symphony

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No.1, Opus 9b

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35 (Joshua Bell, violin)

Bernstein: Suite from A Quite Place (Encore)

*Author is Robin Goulding from the liner notes to J Bells 'recording of the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting (London 421 716-2, rel. 1988)