Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. Bertrand Chamayou is the soloist in Mozart’s “23rd Piano Concerto”. Herbert Blomstedt guest conducts. Also on the program Brahms’ “2nd Symphony”.
Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts.
...plus Shostakovich's "5th" and a recent work by Mason Bates.
Upon hearing the first performances critics and audiences were unsure of what to make of Mahler's 1st Symphony, which sounds 'tame' when compared with some works of it's era of composition...
Levit has emerged as a 'star' in today's universe of pianists....April of 2015 the L.A. Times described him as "the best Russian pianist you've never heard...yet"
