Name: Ravel & Brahms
Start: 2025-02-16
End: 2025-02-16
Location: Walt Disney Concert Hall

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LA Phil

Conductor

Paavo Järvi

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Seong-Jin Cho

Piano

Ravel & Brahms

Los Angeles

United States

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Public

Private

Concerto for String Orchestra

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, op. 25 (arr. Arnold Schoenberg)

Piano Concerto in G Major

Sharan Allad

Approved

Ravel & Brahms: Concerto for String Orchestra Bacewicz (+2 More)

The Wall Street Journal describes South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho as poised to take his place among the greats of the past “not only for his bulletproof technique, but also for his artistic voice [and] his sense of drama.” Cho joins the LA Phil for Ravel’s Concerto in G, one of the pianist’s favorite works, which he describes as a continuous dialog between piano and orchestra. Grammy Award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi leads the LA Phil first in Bacewicz’ Concerto for String Orchestra, which combines approachable classical melodies with more modern harmonic ideas. Järvi closes the program with Brahms’ Piano Quartet arranged for orchestra. Schoenberg adored Brahms’ original but felt it was rarely performed well as chamber music, leading him to transform the piece into an orchestral version—given its world premiere by the LA Phil—that brings out Brahms’ shifting variations and colors.

English

Ravel & Brahms by Bacewicz, Brahms, Ravel, Sun 16 Feb 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Paavo Järvi, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, United States

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