Door time: 6:00 PM
Show time: 6:30 PM
“[Hélène] Grimaud doesn’t sound like most pianists,” proclaims The New Yorker, also calling her “a reinventor of phrasings” and “taker of chances;” here she opens the 2025 Festival season with Brahms’ monumental First Piano Concerto. Surrounding Brahms’ intense work are familiar showstoppers: Ravel’s famously unrelenting Boléro, a dreamy suite from the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, and fantastic musical fireworks by Stravinsky.
Artists:
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Program:
Igor Stravinsky, Feu d’artifice (Fireworks)
Johannes Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15
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Maurice Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
Maurice Ravel, Bolero