Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Beethoven’s “Emperor Piano Concerto” on the “Evening Concert”
He performs with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra led by Daniel Harding.
A Richard Strauss tone poem double-bill on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Tilting at windwills, it's "Don Quixote" by Strauss, with "Ein Heldenleben" (A Hero's Life) as the 'double' of this double-billing.
Tonight’s “Evening Concert” features music by Strauss, Bartok, and Michael Tilson Thomas
"I am Richard Strauss". That's an exact quote from the composer heard by US troops when he answered the knock on his door by US troops during WWII.
A “Sitar Concerto”? Yes. Indeed. On tonight’s Evening Concert from Los Angeles
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music. The 20th C. master of the instrument best known in the West was Ravi Shankar (d. 2012).
“A Hero’s Life”, a Serenade, and lieder by Richard Strauss on the “Evening Concert”
The work "A Hero's Life" (tone poem) was completed in 1898, the Brentano Leider written 20 years later, 1918, and orchestrated by Strauss in 1940.