Nicola Benedetti plays the “1st Violin Concerto” of Szymanowski with the NY Phil. . .
. . .plus selections from the Ballet "Cinderella", music by Prokofiev.
Gautier Capucon plays Saint-Saens’ “1st Cello Concerto” with the CSO tonight
Michael Tilson Thomas guest conducts...
Music for the ballet by Stravinsky: “Petrushka” and the “Scenes” from San Francisco
Thomas Hampson was in the neighborhood so he dropped in to sing on John Adams' "The Wound Dresser"
Prokofiev’s ballet music for “Cinderella” on tonight’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast
Written between 1940 and 1944 with a premiere in 1945 the ballet music to "Cinderella" by Prokofiev is some of his most accessible and satisfying music.
Tchaikovsky’s “5th Symphony” and Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite on the “Evening Concert”
Stravinsky was a youth of 11 when he caught a glimpse of near-the-end-of-his-life Tchaikovsky at the Mariinsky Theater...