Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” featured on tonight’s “Evennig Concert”
Also on the program, Ravel's "Mother Goose" Suite, plus music by Paganini.
A “French Festival” from the Chicago SYmphony Orchestra on the “Evening Concert”
Esa-Pekka Salonen guest conducts.
Nikolai Lugansky plays “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” with the San Francisco Symphony
Lugansky is a pianist who as a youth taught himself to play a Beethoven piano sonata by ear before he learned to read music.
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.