Martha Argerich has received numerous distinctions, including the French Government’s “Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres”....she joins the LA Phil. in Schumann's only Piano Concerto, still a standard of the concerto repertoire.

In addition to the Messiaen work on the program, Ravel's "Piano Concerto in G Minor" is featured with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist.

Much admired by Beethoven and Brahms, Mozart's 24th Piano Concerto (as performed by Till Fellner and the San Francisco Symphony) may be admired by you this evening at 7:00 on "The Evening Concert".

Counterpoint (in music) is defined as "the relationship between voices (or instruments) that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour (essentially independent melodies interacting with one another). "Counterpoint" is the copmpositional device common to both Bach's Keyboard Concerto and Schoenberg's Piano Concerto found on tonight's program.

Is it an "accident of history" or choice of Brahms to compose his 1st Piano Concerto in the dramatic key of D Minor?