Samy Rachid conducts Weber, Mendelssohn, & Schumann

Former BSO Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid returns to the podium for a program of early German Romantic masterworks, music at the core of the symphonic repertoire. Acclaimed Polish pianist Jan Lisiecki returns for Felix Mendelssohn’s elegantly dazzling Piano Concerto No. 1, which the precocious Mendelssohn wrote and premiered in his early twenties. Carl Maria von Weber, known for his operas on fantastical subjects, composed Oberon, or The Elf-King’s Oath, in the final year of his life; the strain of completing it and seeing to its production hastened his early death at age 39. Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Spring, was his first successful orchestral score; its energy and optimism may be in response to the encouragement of his new wife, Clara. 

Former BSO Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid returns to the podium for a program of early German Romantic masterworks, music at the core of the symphonic repertoire. Acclaimed Polish pianist Jan Lisiecki returns for Felix Mendelssohn’s elegantly dazzling Piano Concerto No. 1, which the precocious Mendelssohn wrote and premiered in his early twenties. Carl Maria von Weber, known for his operas on fantastical subjects, composed Oberon, or The Elf-King’s Oath, in the final year of his life; the strain of completing it and seeing to its production hastened his early death at age 39. Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Spring, was his first successful orchestral score; its energy and optimism may be in response to the encouragement of his new wife, Clara.