It’s the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featured on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Shostakovich wrote his "Cello Concerto No. 1" in 1959 for MStislav Rostropovich. It is considered to be one of the most difficult cello concertos ever written.
“Pictures at an Exhibition” performed by the San Francisco Symphony on the “Evening Concert”
Charles Dutoit guset conducts tonight's broadcast. Gautier Capucon plays Elgar's Cello Concerto with the group.
Maestro Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony
By "Unfinished" it is meant that there are only two movements of a traditional four movement symphony....but what a great work, "unfinished" or not!
An all-Shostakovich program from the New York Philharmonic on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Three days. That's all it took. Shostakovich wrote the "Festive Overture" in 1954 for the 37th Anniversary of the 'October Revolution' in three days!
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony from the New York Philharmonic on the “Evening Concert”
Ironically so, this program was scheduled before Maestro Masur's death in December, 2015!