Guest conductor Robin Ticciati conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra in works by Robert Schumann and Wolfgang Mozart on this Sunday's Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast at 1 pm. Pianist Jonathan Biss is soloist.
Schumann's Manfred Overture, inspired by Lord Byron's poem Manfred in the late 1840s, opens the program, a work that Schumann himself called a "dramatic poem with music." The design of this overture may be conventional, but the inner workings are as passionate and daring as Byron's poem.
Also on the program, Mozart's 27th, and last, piano concerto, played by Curtis graduate (and now faculty member) pianist Jonathan Biss, who brings a special touch to Mozart’s music.
Concluding the concert, Schumann's Symphony No. 4, his last symphony, and a work the composer set aside for a decade before its completion.
During intermission, WRTI's Bliss Mickelson and Susan Lewis speak backstage with Jonathan Biss and Robin Ticciati.
That's Sunday, January 17th, from 1 to 3 PM on WRTI!
Detailed program notes from The Philadelphia Orchestra performance in November, 2015
PROGRAM:
Schumann: Manfred Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27,
Jonathan Biss, piano
INTERMISSION
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Robin Ticciati, conductor
Gregg Whiteside, host
