Sinfonia da Camera Messiah and Mendelssohn
Sinfonia inaugurates the holiday season with a performance of Mendelssohn’s exuberant “Reformation” Symphony
Schumann’s “Cello Concerto” & Mendelsohhn’s 5th Symphony on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
The Schumann "Cello Concerto" was composed in 1850. The premiere, sad to say, was made four years after Schumann's death. Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony pre-dates the Schumann "Cello Concerto" by 20 years.
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The Blair Quartet plays string quartets by Haydn and Mendelssohn on the “Evening Concert”
Haydn's Opus 77, No. 1 string quartet (1799) and Mendelssohn's Opus 44, No. 1 string quartet (1837) are separated by less than 40 years, yet there's a world of difference between the two stylistically speaking.
Muti conducts the CSO in Respighi’s “Roman Festivals” on the “Evening Concert”
Music Director Riccardo Muti put together this program of music by Italian composers and works inspired by Italy, like Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony.
Mei-Ann Chen conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in “Scheherazade”
She reads him a different story each night until he falls asleep, thus avoiding certain death....that 'she' is Scheherazade.