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Mozart Symphony No. 39 with Xian Zhang & Jonathan Biss

Oct 17 - Oct 19
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Mozart Symphony No. 39 with Xian Zhang & Jonathan Biss
Xian Zhang, Conductor Jonathan Biss, Piano

Xian Zhang, conductor
Jonathan Biss, piano

CHEN Yi Landscape Impression
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54
-Intermission-
MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K.543

Xian Zhang makes her Symphony Hall debut leading a work she premiered with the New Jersey Symphony in June 2023, prominent Chinese-born composer Chen Yi’s Landscape Impression. American pianist Jonathan Biss is the soloist in Robert Schumann’s lyrical and powerful Piano Concerto. Schumann wrote the piece at the urging of his wife Clara, one of the great pianists of the age. Mozart’s elegant Symphony No. 39 was the first of his final trilogy of symphonies, written at lightning speed in summer 1788.

Friday afternoon's performance by Jonathan Biss is generously supported by The Helen and Josef Zimbler Fund.

Xian Zhang, Conductor Jonathan Biss, Piano

Xian Zhang, conductor
Jonathan Biss, piano

CHEN Yi Landscape Impression
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54
-Intermission-
MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K.543

Xian Zhang makes her Symphony Hall debut leading a work she premiered with the New Jersey Symphony in June 2023, prominent Chinese-born composer Chen Yi’s Landscape Impression. American pianist Jonathan Biss is the soloist in Robert Schumann’s lyrical and powerful Piano Concerto. Schumann wrote the piece at the urging of his wife Clara, one of the great pianists of the age. Mozart’s elegant Symphony No. 39 was the first of his final trilogy of symphonies, written at lightning speed in summer 1788.

Friday afternoon's performance by Jonathan Biss is generously supported by The Helen and Josef Zimbler Fund.

Xian Zhang, Conductor Jonathan Biss, Piano

Xian Zhang, conductor
Jonathan Biss, piano

CHEN Yi Landscape Impression
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54
-Intermission-
MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K.543

Xian Zhang makes her Symphony Hall debut leading a work she premiered with the New Jersey Symphony in June 2023, prominent Chinese-born composer Chen Yi’s Landscape Impression. American pianist Jonathan Biss is the soloist in Robert Schumann’s lyrical and powerful Piano Concerto. Schumann wrote the piece at the urging of his wife Clara, one of the great pianists of the age. Mozart’s elegant Symphony No. 39 was the first of his final trilogy of symphonies, written at lightning speed in summer 1788.

Friday afternoon's performance by Jonathan Biss is generously supported by The Helen and Josef Zimbler Fund.

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