For the listener, there is a clarity heard in the chamber-sized performances of Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos" that is not available in the orchestral versions...hear the first and third of those six Concertos tonight.

Harry Bickey conducts the CSO in works from the Baroque Era on tonight's "Evening Concert".

The two works on the first half of the show date from a mere twenty years apart.. the Franck from roughly 1889-90 and the Stravinsky from 1918.

A Schubert impromptu to start, a Beethoven string Quartet to follow, then flute and piano from Poulenc, a Serenade by Kodaly and Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto tonight.

You'll hear 2 of Bach's "Brandenburg" Concertos in 'chamber-sized' (one player per 'part') on tonight's "Evening Concert".