Yannick Leads Symphonic Rituals
from Bernstein’s MASSFeatured Artists
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Alexandre Kantorow
Fifty-five years after Leonard Bernstein’s fierce, theatrical cry for peace premiered at the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC—and eleven after Yannick led The Philadelphia Orchestra’s only complete performances and recording of the work—the Orchestra reveals the stunning musical heart of this transformative masterwork in a new orchestral arrangement. Opening this powerful program is Brahms’s songful, evocative First Piano Concerto, performed by a “rising star in the classical world” (The New York Times).
Program
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1
Bernstein
Symphonic Rituals from MASS (world premiere—Philadelphia Orchestra commission)
Approximate Duration
includes intermission