Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Conductor
Daniil Trifonov - Piano
PROGRAM
Boulanger - Of a Sad Evening
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1
(Thursday and Friday)
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor")
(Saturday and Sunday)
Farrenc - Symphony No. 2
Daniil Trifonov, the Orchestra's Grammy-winning recording partner, returns for four performances. Amplifying the programs are two underappreciated works by formidable women composers: Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win, in 1913, the prestigious Prix de Rome composition prize, and Louise Farrenc, whose Symphony No. 2 dialogues with Beethoven, and leaves us asking why her works are not a more integral part of the canon today.