Description:

Maestro Dutoit welcomes American soprano Shana Blake Hill for her Philadelphia Orchestra subscription debut in The Phoenix, a work that Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale. Also making his Orchestra subscription debut is Moscow-born pianist Nikolaï Lugansky, silver medalist at the 1994 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, performing Rachmaninoff's tightrope-walk of a Third Concerto. The program opens with Mozart's magnificent E-flat-major Symphony, No. 39 of 1788, one of a mighty final triptych of works in the form representing the summation of the composer's symphonic art.

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Audio Samples:

MOZART - Symphony No. 39

RACHMANINOFF - Piano Concerto No. 3

Concert Enhancements:

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Program Notes:

May 27, 2010 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the 2010 Celebration Collection, and package Saturday 3A (6A)

Part of the 2010 Weekend Collection, and package Saturday 3A (6A)