The Vienna Philharmonic featured on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Works by Mussorgsky, Debussy and Wagner..."pictorial' music, so to speak.....
Works by Mussorgsky, Debussy and Wagner..."pictorial' music, so to speak.....
Marc-Andre Hamelin plays Liszt's "Piano Concerto No. 1", The CSO plays Mahler's 5th, Anne-Sophie Mutter plays the brahms' "Violin Concerto" in San Francisco and so much more on this week's "Evening Concert"
Conductors put together 'programs' that have a sometimes apparent, sometimes not theme. Tonight's is "Program Music", music without words that has a title and attempts to convey a musical description of something...like "The Sea" or "Fate".
Macal, Delfs and deWaart....the names associated with the "Three Eras" of the MSO...
Boulez passed away earlier this year. As Music Director of the Philharmonic for a period in the 1970s he recorded with the orchestra many of his works and other more famous works of the 20th century.