Posts Tagged ‘Brahms’
Tuesday 03/20/12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas Pianist: Yefim Bronfman Crawford Seeger: Andante for Strings Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D Minor, Op 15 Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E-Flat Major, Op 97, Rhenish (Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)
Wednesday 01/25/12 Live! At The Concertgebouw
11pm CONDUCTOR: Christoph Eschenbach ORCHESTRA: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
Tuesday 01/24/12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11pm Conductor Semyon Bychkov returns, along with duo-pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque. Poulenc: Two-Piano Concerto Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op 40 Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E Minor, Op 98 (David Robertson, conductor)
10/23/11 A monumental work
Brahms wrote 2 piano concertos in his lifetime, at opposite ends of his career. The first didn’t fare well (except with Liszt, which really irked Brahms), but the second was a triumph. One reviewer said it was actually a concerto for 2 orchestras, except that one of the orchestras is a piano. Don’t miss a […]
