Courtney Lewis, Music Director
Haskell Endowed Chair
Daniel Hsu, Piano
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART |
Piano Concerto No. 20 |
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN |
Symphony No. 1 |
Mozart’s D minor Concerto marks the first of six staggering masterpieces for piano and orchestra written between 1785 and 1786. His stormiest concerto – and an omen of the Romantic Era – was regarded by the 19th-century masters as Beethoven-ish, the highest praise possible at the time. It’s a perfect pairing with Beethoven’s First Symphony, a work in which the first few moments already foreshadow that this giant was about to change everything. Van Cliburn Piano Competition-medalist Daniel Hsu joins Courtney Lewis and the Symphony in this spectacular season opener.