BRAHMS 2 + RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff’s jazz-touched Concerto meets Brahms’ radiant Second Symphony.
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A HERO'S LIFE:
Strauss + Ravel
September 18-19, 2020 | Music Hall
Cancelled
These concerts are cancelled due to the continuing COVID health crisis. View ticket options.
Public performances this fall will be replaced by a free Live from Music Hall digital concert series.
Program
MOZART: Overture to Idomeneo
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G Major
STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben ("A Hero's Life")
Artists
Louis Langrée, conductor
Helene Grimaud, piano
Venue
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What's Interesting
- Strauss’ epic showpiece features battling brass (onstage and off) and a famous violin solo played by our Concertmaster, Stefani Matsuo.
- Mozart’s opera Idomeneo sets to music the struggles of a warrior king after the events of the Trojan War.
- Pianist Hélène Grimaud, a longtime friend of the Orchestra and “a taker of chances” (The New Yorker), returns with a Ravel concerto that kept Mozart in mind.
What Critics Are Saying
“The pianist Hélène Grimaud played with crackling vitality and bite in Ravel’s jazzy, jaunty Piano Concerto in G. [...] She stilled the audience with her soulful playing in the sadly dancing slow movement, and was capricious and fiery in the perpetual-motion finale, played with such panache that the audience would not stop applauding.”
—The New York Times
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