wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

It’s a muchly-Mozart kind of an evening, not for any other reason than that his music is just so good! The largest in scale of all Mozart’s horn concertos is No. 3 in E-flat, K. 447. Dale Clevenger, the Chicago Symphony’s principal horn player since 1966, stars in tonight’s offering by that orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado. Immediately after, we hear the glorious soprano Arlene Auger (who’s birthday would have been tomorrow) singing “Abendempfindung” (Evening Thoughts). Almost at the end of the evening, conducting from the keyboard, fleet-fingered Murray Perahia will play the Piano Concerto No. 16 with the English Chamber Orchestra.

We bring you more than a bit of Brahms, too, as we present his Symphony No. 3, Karajan heading the Berlin Philharmonic, followed by baritone Thomas Allen’s version of the appropriately titled “Sonntag,” (Sunday).

We mustn’t forget to mention Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 7, which will give you another chance to admire Murray Perahia’s double talents, conducting and soloing, this time with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. In the midst of all these earlier composers, Vincent d’Indy is showcased: his Piano Quintet No. 3, dating from 1924, is played by the New Budapest String Quartet with Ilona Prunyi on piano.