Boston Symphony Orchestra: Sibelius, Grieg, Copland, Batrok April 10, 2009

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SHI-YEON SUNG, conductor **
NELSON FREIRE, piano

SIBELIUS The Bard
GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor
COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring
BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

BSO Assistant Conductor Shi-Yeon Sung makes her subscription series debut with this thoughtfully conceived program of music from four countries, illustrating a wide range of musical styles. The eminent Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire joins Sung and the BSO for the Norwegian Edvard Grieg’s popular and Romantic Piano Concerto. Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’s short, meditative tone poem The Bard contrasts with the effusive openness of Aaron Copland’s very American Suite from Appalachian Spring—that composer’s most familiar piece. Closing the concert is the suite from Bartók’s lurid, exotic ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, written in 1919.

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