Yefim Bronfman plays Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1
Program
Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
Berg
Three Pieces from Lyric Suite
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1
Virtuoso Yefim Bronfman joins the Orchestra for Brahms’s monumental First Piano Concerto, a staggering masterpiece from the composer’s twenty-fifth year. The program prefaces this work with the jovial Academic Festival Overture and music by Alban Berg, the early twentieth-century modernist most influenced by Brahmsian Romantic pathos. The sensual Lyric Suite is a musical love letter to Berg’s mistress—written in code!
New! Listen to a podcast about Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1Inside Music, an informative talk with Laura Stanfield Prichard, begins one hour prior to concerts. Free to ticketholders.
Meet Yefim Bronfman at a CD signing in the Symphony Store following the November 24, 26, and 27 concerts.