The Belcea Quartet plays Haydn; Thomas Hampson sings on “The Evening Concert”
The Belcea Quartet won the Gramophone Award for Best Debut Recording in 2001. Hear them play a late string quartet by Haydn on tonight's "Evening Concert".
The Belcea Quartet won the Gramophone Award for Best Debut Recording in 2001. Hear them play a late string quartet by Haydn on tonight's "Evening Concert".
Former University of Illinois String-Quartet-in-Residence the Pacifica, play Mendelssohn's F Minor Quartet, plus songs and more songs from "Song: Mirror of the World", Episode 2: Vienna, Crossroads of Change".
Mahler's 7th Symphony dates from 1904-05 and is in an atypical five movements. Writers describe how the work "continues" the "progressive tonality" heard in his Sixth Symphony.
The 101st Symphony by Haydn dates from 1793-4. Marc-Andre Hamelin dates from 1961. He'll play the Keyboard Concerto [No.11] [date unknown] on tonight's "Evening Concert".
The Fourth Symphony of Beethoven is often thought to be a lesser (opinions vary) work in that it appears on the surface to not be as revolutionary a work as the 3rd or 5th symphonies. Are 'they" right or not? Tune in to find out.