Debussy’s “Petite Suite”, and a Bach “English Suite” featured on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
There appears to be a monopoly on pianists on tonight's "Evening Concert": all but one work on the programs involve the piano.
Belohlavek conducts the PSO in Smetana’s “Ma Vlast” on the “Evening Concert”
It is a rare opportunity to hear all of Smetana's "Ma Vlast" set of tones poems "under one roof" so to speak. That's tonight's "Evening Concert".
Yefim Bronfman plays Brahms’ 1st Piano Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Brahms wrote his First Piano Concerto in 1858 which is exactly 100 years before tonight's soloist Bronfman was born!
Susanna Mälkki conducts Debussy’s “La Mer” (The Sea) on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
While Debussy's "La Mer" (symphonic poem in three sections) would appear to be programmatic (music describing something) he felt otherwise about the work.....it was (paraphrasing Hanslick) "Music for Music's sake".
New York Philharmonic Artist-in-Residence Inon Barnatan plays Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in G”
Ravel composed two piano concertos: the one for Left Hand Alone and tonight's gem: the Concerto in G. In fact, he composed both in the same time period 1929- 1931, with the Left Hand Concerto's debut a mere 9 days preceding the Concerto in G.