Mozart Symphony No. 39 with Xian Zhang & Jonathan Biss
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
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.
- The Anne and Blake Ireland Concert
Performance Details
Oct 18, 2024, 8:00pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Landscape Impression
Chen Yi's Landscape Impression was inspired by two 1,000-year-old Chinese poems.
Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54
While virtuosic and Romantic, Schumann's Piano Concerto eschews the brilliant-for-the-sake-of-brilliance fireworks that had become the norm for the mid-19th-century piano concerto.
Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K.543
Mozart’s last three symphonies, nos. 39-41, completed in just a few weeks in 1788, have virtually come to define the central genre in classical music, demonstrating both perfection of compositional craft and a dumbfounding variety of expression.
