Liang Wang plays Richard Strauss’ “Oboe Concerto” on “The New York Philharmonic This Week”
It really is a true story, about the US soldier who invited Strauss to write an oboe concerto.
An all-Richard Strauss program from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra tonight
"I am Richard Strauss". Those were the words, in English, that Strauss uttered to the American soldiers who came knocking on his door during WWII...out of the encounter came a comission to write a concerto!
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (featuring a different soloist on each concerto) on the “Evening Concert”
This should be fun and interesting: you’ll hear the complete Vivaldi “Four Seasons” with a different violin soloist for each one, plus Mozart Oboe Quartet from Santa Fe.
Bach’s “Concerto for Violin and Oboe” on tonight’s “New York Philharmonic This Week”
What sounds good to us as a concerto for these two instruments (violin and oboe), likely sounds as good as the concerto for its original instruments, two harpsichords. Hear the "Violin and Oboe" version tonight.
Mozart’s Oboe Quartet and Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1 on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
1781. Mozart turned 25 January of that year. It's also the same year of the composition of his one-and-only Oboe Quartet in F Major, which you can hear tonight on the "Evening Concert".