New Music Director Jaap van Zweden leads the Philharmonic in tonight's concert.

"I have never written anything like it (...) Nor, perhaps, have I ever worked under such a sense of inner compulsion; it was like a sudden vision - all at once the whole thing stood before my eyes and all I had to do was write it down, as though it had been dictated to me." - Mahler on his 8th Symphony*

Rachmaninov's "1st" [Piano Concerto] was written in 1891 and revised in 1917. It is usual to hear the 1917 version not the manuscript (1891) version.

Opera choruses, preludes, overtures, intermezzi by Verdi, Puccini and others.

Tonight it's Respighi's "Roman Trilogy" and Beethoven's "8th Symphony".