An All-Baroque music program from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra: tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Music by the titans of the era: Bach, Handel, and Telemann.
Baroque chamber music, then Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” tonight
The Baroque music on tonight's program is (almost all) absolute music, that is music for music's sake, while the "Pictures at an Exhibition" is a program work, an attempt to capture in sound a "program', in this case the paintings by Viktor Hartmann.
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Two hours of chamber music by famous composers on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Chamber music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are in our first hour tonight (7:00 pm CT) and an all-baroque music hour to follow that.
Pinchas Zukerman plays Violin, Viola, and Conducts all at the same time!, (not!, but close!)
Zukerman is ‘soloist one’ in Bach’s “Double Violin Concerto” and the only soloist in Telemann’s “Viola Concerto”, and he conducts music of Mozart, as well.
Chamber-sized performances of three of Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Brandenburgs numbers 2, 4 & 6, plus a Mozart Viola Quintet arae the featured works chamber music works on tonight's program.