CLASSICAL:  Ax Plays Brahms

THU, NOV 16, 7:30 PM MEYERHOFF
SAT, NOV 18, 8 PM STRATHMORE
SUN, NOV 19, 3 PM MEYERHOFF

https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/18274

Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

UNSUK CHIN subito con forza
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1

The eminent pianist Emanuel Ax—performs Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1—remains the standard-bearer of Brahms for our times, consistently exhibiting his “big and pliant sonority, stamina, intelligence, poetic feeling and deep musicality.” (Chicago Tribune) Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony channels the impish wit of his onetime teacher Haydn, while Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza riffs on a phrase from Beethoven over the course of five frenetic minutes.