This year The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrates an important rediscovery. By programming Florence Price, the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin features a composer whose works gained considerable attention in the USA in the Thirties and Forties by incorporating the echoes of the spirituals into a classic symphonic form. Pieces by Antonín Dvořák and Karol Szymanowski provide a rousing opening.
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Antonín Dvořák
Carnival Overture, op. 92
Karol Szymanowski
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, op. 35
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Florence Price
Symphony No. 1 in E minor
A Berliner Festspiele/Musikfest Berlin event
