Violinist Leonidas Kavakos plays with the New York Philharmonic on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Kavakos plays the Bartok Romanian Folk Dances, plus a NY Philharmonic premiere of a violin concerto by a composer who passed away in 2013.
Kavakos plays the Bartok Romanian Folk Dances, plus a NY Philharmonic premiere of a violin concerto by a composer who passed away in 2013.
Hear Borodin's "Nocturne" in it's original string quartet version, Faure's "Elegy" for cello and piano, and more chamber music on tonight's "Evening Concert" at 7:00 p.m.
March 26 of 2015 was Maestro Boulez's 90th birthday, and to celebrate that the folks at the Philharmonic put together this retrospective of the Maestro's work with the Philharmonic.
Brahms came to writing symphonies very late in his career as he (paraphrasing sources) "felt the shadow of Beethoven looming over him"...the 4th Symphony is a tour de force from it's wistful opening to the dramatic finale.
Not one, not two, but three different selections from host John Frayne this week.