Inon Barnatan plays Brahms’ 1st Piano Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Tangential to the conductor's work of conducting is selecting music to create a "program". Music Director Edo de Waart has put together
Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays works by Ligeti; Daniil Trifonov plays Schumann’s “Symphonic Etudes”
Listeners in Schumann's time thought that his "Symphonic Etudes" were wild and crazy. Ligeti's "Etudes" qualify.....and by contrast, Chopin Mazurkas. . .
Jeffrey Kahane plays Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto while conducting the New York Philharmonic
As a pianist in his twenties, he placed fourth in the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Andre-Michel Schub placed first). Two years later he won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition.
Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and other’s music on “The “Evening Concert”
Russian composers with different sensibilities: Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff? Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL FM-90.9, Rachmaninoff’s “Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos” is the featured work on "The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center". At 8:00 you'll hear Beethoven's 30th Piano Sonata and
Mozart’s 21st Piano Concerto and Dvorak’s 8th Symphony on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Can you compare the "greatness" of two classical music pieces? Which would you enjoy more? Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto or Dvorak's 8th Symphony?