Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the San Francisco Symphony. James Ehnes is the soloist in Bruch’s “1st Violin Concerto”. Marek Janowski guest conducts.  Also on the program Wagner’s “Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde” and the “Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhauser”.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”. Denis Kozhukin is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s “2nd Piano Concerto”. Jaap van Zweden guest conducts. Also on the program, Tchaikovsky’s “5th Symphony” and Wagner’s “Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin”.

Enjoy the Lyric Opera of Chicago's performance of Wagner's Die Walküre.

Enjoy recordings of Wagner and Holst by the pioneer conductor Albert Coates.

The program comes to us from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts series and includes music of Mozart and Wagner.