MTT & Trifonov: Rachmaninoff & John Adams

Presented by San Francisco Symphony

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Witness the coming together of extraordinary artists. MTT leads the Orchestra in the World premiere of a new work by one of America's most celebrated and oft-performed living composers, John Adams.

Then, fiery Daniil Trifonov tackles a concerto by a pianist widely considered to be among the greatest of all time: Sergei Rachmaninoff. It was almost 100 years ago that Rachmaninoff took a seat in New York’s Aeolian Hall for the premiere of a new kind of music, one that blended jazz and classical idioms. That piece was George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Two years later, Rachmaninoff answered with his athletic Fourth Piano Concerto, a blend of American jazz, Russian folksong, Orthodox chant, and tonal Modernism.

Rounding out the evening with a classic, MTT conducts Robert Schumann’s five-movement Symphony No. 3, an optimistic and buoyant vision of the Rhine.

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City: San Francisco
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$35–160

Program Items

John Adams I Still Dance (Co-commission by SFS & Carnegie Hall, World Premiere)
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 Piano Concerto No. 4
Schumann Symphony No. 3, Rhenish

Performers

Michael Tilson Thomas Conductor
Daniil Trifonov Piano
San Francisco Symphony

Davies Symphony Hall

Davies Symphony Hall

201 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States