“The Cradle That Rocked: Re-Discovering Marc Blitzstein” last episode tonight
Preceding Marc Blitzstein...there'll be chamber music by Finnish composers.
Christian Tetzlaff plays Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto” in Shanghai on the “Evening Concert”
It took Mendelssohn six years to complete. Do you think it took Christian Tetzlaff six years to learn to play Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto"? Perhaps. The answer depends on what age he started to learn the work.
Symphonies No. 7 (Sibelius) and No. 6 (Mahler) on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
While one composer sought to put (paraphraseing) the world in a Symphony (Mahler) the other sought to hone his musical language to creat a one-movement Symphony (Sibelius).
Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto on the “Evening Concert”
A review in the May 1809 edition of the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung states that "[this concerto, Beethoven's 4th] is the most admirable, singular, artistic and complex Beethoven concerto ever".
Finlandia
Guest conductor Martha Placeres leads the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra in this performance of a Jean Sibelius' piece and more.