Chopin & Mahler

Thursday
April 29, 2010, 7:00 p.m.- Laura Turner Concert Hall

Friday
April 30, 2010, 8:00 p.m.- Laura Turner Concert Hall

Saturday
May 1, 2010, 8:00 p.m.- Laura Turner Concert Hall

Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor
Ingrid Fliter, Piano

Chopin -  Concerto for Piano No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Mahler -  Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

Chopin’s Concerto for Piano No. 2 will serve as a showcase for the impeccable technique and elegant sensitivity of award-winning soloist Ingrid Fliter. Actually composed as the first of Chopin's piano concertos, the piece allows listeners to hear the composer's budding genius as he began to transform writing for the piano. Mahler's Symphony No. 5 represents a dramatic turning point in the Austrian composer's career, with the rich tapestry of orchestral colors giving expression to moods of despondency, anger, yearning and, finally, utter joyousness. The unsurpassed slow movement is one of Mahler's most profound utterances.

Read the program notes.