“Carnegie Hall Live”, the CSO, the San Francisco Symphony, The New York Philharmonic This Week
Italian opera arias, Mahler's 3rd, Beethoven's 7th Symphony and 1st Piano Concerto plus Chamber Music on This Week's "Evening Concert"
Italian opera arias, Mahler's 3rd, Beethoven's 7th Symphony and 1st Piano Concerto plus Chamber Music on This Week's "Evening Concert"
Leif Ove Andsnes embarked a few short years ago on playing all the Beethoven piano concertos while conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, in recordings and on tour. You can hear some of the magnificent results tonight.
It's a piano-concerto-lover's week on the "Evening Concert".
Pianists choose their repertoire and the order of performance. Daniil Trifonov placed his selections in chronological order on this recital from Carnegie Hall.
The genre of the "Orchestral Suite" was very popular in Baroque Germany (the years of Bach, Telemann and others). Even though Bach showed "far less interest" in the genre, his "Suites" have garnered the greatest long-lasting fame.