Yuja Wang Performs Schumann's Piano Concerto
Fittingly, it was Clara Schumann who gave the debut performance of her husband's only every piano concerto in Dresden in 1845, for it was her beauty that inspired its sweeping romance and lyrical melodies. 174 years later, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor extraordinaire Andris Nelsons welcome passionate Chinese piano icon Yuja Wang to the stage to evoke the concerto's stunning interplay between soloist and orchestra, resulting in an exhilarating finale that would become an example of some of Schumann's greatest orchestral writing.
The program also features a rousing rendition of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, an unfinished work due to the fact he was still writing it on the day he shuffled off this mortal coil. Filled with Bruckner's boldest strokes, its unorthodox orchestral structure, tonal glory, boundary-pushing harmonies and full-throttle orchestral climaxes culminate in a finale of overwhelming and hair-raising grandeur.