“Music Mountain”, CSO, San Francisco Symphony, et.al. on the “Evening Concert”
The Penderecki String Quartet on "Music Mountain", Charles Dutoit conducts the CSO in the "Rite of Spring" and more on this week's "Evening Concert".
The Penderecki String Quartet on "Music Mountain", Charles Dutoit conducts the CSO in the "Rite of Spring" and more on this week's "Evening Concert".
Beethoven was about 40 when he wrote his "Serioso" String Quartet (1810). Schumann was born the same year as the "Serioso" Quartet was composed.
One wonders if the Finale to Beethoven's 5th Symphony was, in it's day, considered 'the sound equivalent of The Apocalypse'? Messiaens' "Quartet for 'The Endof Time'' is.
Mozart is your main-menu-music item on tonight's all chamber music programs (as always on SUnday evenings on the "Evening Concert".
This week's Evening Concerts feature the first of a series from Music Mountain, Scheherazade, a Bach Orchestral Suite and more.