From San Francisco, a Shostakovich concerto and a ballet suite by Stravinsky
The Suite of music from "The Firebird" by Stravinsky comes from his 1910 ballet of the same name...Shostakovich's concerto comes 23 years later.
Tonight. At 7:00. Prokofiev. “Ivan the Terrible”. From the CSO. On the Evening Concert
Chicago Tribune critic John von Rhein calls the CSO production "a complete triumph" (cso.org). This is the first time that the CSO has ever perfomed this work.
Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony & Stravinsly’s “Firebird” Suite on the “Evening Concert”
Also on the program, a Mozart Divertimento and Schubert's 2nd Symphony from Cleveland.
Nikolai Lugansky plays “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” with the San Francisco Symphony
Lugansky is a pianist who as a youth taught himself to play a Beethoven piano sonata by ear before he learned to read music.
“The Firebird Suite”, a “Harp Concerto” and more on tonight’s ‘Evening Concert”
Stravinsky's "Firebird" Ballet premiered in 1910; forty-plus years later Ginastera's "Harp Concerto" had its premiere.