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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI: Yannick Conducts Works by Brahms and Schumann

Join us on Sunday, May 9 at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 10 at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear this 2016 Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast with pianist Hélène Grimaud who performs a concerto close to her heart—the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this program, which pairs the works of Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, two composers who — though born a generation apart — enjoyed a brief but enormously significant friendship.

Credit Mat Hennek
Pianist Hélène Grimaud

Following intermission, when WRTI’s Susan Lewis speaks with Ms. Grimaud, the Philadelphians perform a work by Schumann that his new bride Clara Wieck called "a marvelous expression of youthful energy, full of the sound of birdsong in the spring air." And by all accounts, Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 was a resounding success from the very first performance.

Detailed program notes from the concert

PROGRAM:

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

     Hélène Grimaud, pianist

INTERMISSION

Schumann: Symphony No. 1

     Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Gregg Whiteside is producer and host of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcasts on WRTI 90.1 FM in Philadelphia and streaming online at WRTI.org, every Sunday at 1 PM and repeated on Mondays at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2.

Gregg was the host of WRTI's morning drive show from 2012 until his retirement from WRTI in January, 2021. He began producing and hosting The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert broadcasts in 2013, joining the Orchestra in Hong Kong for the first-ever live international radio broadcasts from that island in 2016, and in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for two historic broadcasts in 2018. You can still hear Gregg as host of the Orchestra broadcasts every Sunday and Monday on WRTI.