Alsop, Kozhukhin / Barber, Prokofiev, Dvořák

A matinee conducted by Marin Alsop begins with music by the American composer Samuel Barber and culminates in Antonin Dvořák’s journey to the New World as expressed symphonically in his Symphony No. 9. Denis Kozhukhin, the freshly crowned first prize winner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, plays Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto.

PERFORMERS

Marin Alsop

conductor

About the performer

Denis Kozhukhin

piano

About the performer

Wiener Symphoniker

Programme

Samuel Barber

Second Essay for Orchestra op. 17

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in g minor op. 16

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Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No. 9 in e minor op. 95 "From the New World"