"Completely Novel and Ingenious": Brahms' Fourth
The critic Eduard Hanslick was ecstatic in his praise of Brahms’ fourth and final symphony, lauding its “craftsmanship, strength, unbending consistency, and earnestness…” This simultaneously lyrical and robust symphony caps the Philharmonic’s season in a blaze of romantic vigor. Noted Seattle-based actress Sydney Maltese joins the orchestra for the U.S. premiere of Australian composer Jenny McLeod’s colorful setting of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Emperor and the Nightingale, preceded by a performance of Percy Grainger’s rumbustious take on the English folk song Green Bushes.
GRAINGER | Green Bushes
McLEOD | The Emperor and the Nightingale (U.S. premiere)
Soloist | Sydney Maltese, Narrator
BRAHMS | Symphony No. 4 in e, Op. 98
June 7th
2 pm
Benaroya Hall
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"Passionate and Fascinating": Schumann's Fourth
This festive program opens with the U.S. premiere of the sparkling Suite para Orquesta by Spanish composer Rosa García Ascot. Violinist Tokuji Miyasaka, winner of the Philharmonic’s 2024 Don Bushell Competition, is the dazzling soloist in the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Niccolò Paganini, the composer/performer whose legendary virtuosity caused contemporaries to suspect him of an alliance with The Devil. We conclude with Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, a work in which the composer displays amazing structural unity wedded to his characteristic rhapsodic intensity.