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CURTIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Bronfman Plays Bartók
Place & Time
Verizon Hall
Kimmel Center
300 S. Broad Street

Philadelphia PA United States
April 29, 2022
8:00 PM
Program

BÉLA BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Additional works TBD 

 

Robert Spano, conductor

Yefim Bronfman, piano

Additional Information

Conductor Robert Spano (Conducting ’85) reunites with “force of nature” Yefim Bronfman (Piano ’77) to perform Béla Bartók’s ferocious Second Piano Concerto. Bronfman, a recent addition to the Curtis faculty, won a GRAMMY Award for his recording of the concerto. The program continues with Tchaikovsky’s brooding Fifth Symphony. In this work, resolve and sweeping optimism clash against bouts of steely melancholy.

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