Coming to us from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the program also includes Glinka's "Ruslan and Ludmila" Overture and Bernstein's "Symposium after Plato"

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.

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.

Also on the program, a Mozart Divertimento and Schubert's 2nd Symphony from Cleveland.

Lugansky is a pianist who as a youth taught himself to play a Beethoven piano sonata by ear before he learned to read music.