Description:

Prokofiev left the original manuscript of his Second Piano Concerto behind when he fled St. Petersburg for Paris in 1918, so he had to recompose it from memory in 1923. Naturally he made it more difficult! Maestro Dutoit is joined by 2006 Gilmore Young Artist Yuja Wang, a 2008 Curtis Institute graduate and one of today's most charismatic pianists, in her Philadelphia Orchestra subscription debut. The concert opens with Barber's poignant Adagio for Strings. Rounding out the program is Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a hallucinogenic depiction of an opium trip using some of the most brilliant images and colors in the entire symphonic repertoire. It is part of a multi-season focus on the music of France's greatest Romantic composer.

Related Concerts:

• March 18, 2010
  Beethoven's "Eroica"
• March 20, 2010
  Beethoven's "Eroica"
• April 15, 2010
  Ax Plays Beethoven
• April 17, 2010
  Ax Plays Beethoven
• June 04, 2010
  Dutoit Conducts Strauss

Audio Samples:

BARBER - Adagio for Strings

PROKOFIEV - Piano Concerto No. 2

BERLIOZ - Symphonie fantastique

Concert Enhancements:

Free Pre-Concert Conversation one hour prior to concert (About Pre-Concert Conversations)

music+ spoken introductions from the stage

Program Notes:

October 08, 2009 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the 2010 Masterworks Collection, and package Thursday 6A

Part of the 2010 Weekday Collection, and package Thursday 6A