Porgy and Bess
Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra playing selections from this opera from George Gershwin.
Sir Mark Elder / Mozart by Goode and Ives: Symphony No. 2 on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Imagine if Mozart were in tonight's audience for his Piano Concerto No. 23 and the Strauss "Till..." and Ives' 2nd Symphony. What would his opinion of the works be?
It’s an “all-American-music” program on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”
With the passing of Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur in December, the Philharmonic was prompted to assemble this "all-American-music" program from the Philharmonic's archives.
Pianist Wu Han featured in Brahms’ “G Minor Piano Quartet” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Wu Han and David Finckel are the co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center frequently collaborating in live performance on this program.
Gil Shaham plays Prokofiev’s “2nd Violin Concerto” with the San Francisco Symphony
Prokofiev's "2nd Violin Concerto" dates from 1935, the same year as Berg's "Violin Concerto". Each of these works had it's premeire, synchronously so, in Spain (Prokofiev: Madird, Berg: Barcelona).