Salonen conducts the New York Philharmonic in his “Violin Concerto”, Leila J solos
Leila Josefowicz is the violin soloist in guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonene's "Violin Concerto" with the new York Philharmonic
Leila Josefowicz is the violin soloist in guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonene's "Violin Concerto" with the new York Philharmonic
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma collaborates with conductor Charles Dutoit on an all-French Composers program from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
While the string quartet as a genre had been around for over two hundred years it had been falling "out of favor" with composers, especially in France, until Debussy wrote his "String Quartet".
A tribute in music to his many friends killed in WW I (Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin") and to a singular 'death of an artist', (Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition") on tonight's "Evening Concert".
Music Director Franz Welser-Most leads the Orchestra in music of Beethoven and Ravel.