A Mendelssohn “Piano Quartet” and Kurt Elling on “This is Cabaret”
Mnedelssohn's 3rd "Piano Quartet" is his third published work, prodigy-like, at age 16 years!
Falla’s “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” and Debussy’s “La mer” tonight
Falla didn't call it a piano concerto, "it" being his "Nights in the Gardens of Spain"....Debussy didn't call "La Mer" a symphony as it more rightly can be classified as a Symphonic poem.
Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Bach, and more on tonight’s “Evennig Concert”
Dvorak's Opus 65 Trio was written in 1883 when th ecomposer was in his early 40s, so it is a work of 'mature' Dvorak...
Finlandia
Guest conductor Martha Placeres leads the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra in this performance of a Jean Sibelius' piece and more.
Overture to Die Fledermaus
University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra performs this work by Johann Strauss II and many more.