Chen Yi, Schumann and Mozart
Last night, Donna joined us for our first BSO concert this season. Donna especially enjoyed watching Xian Zhang conduct. I liked all the pieces, but of course the Mozart was my favorite.
Here's what we heard:
Xian Zhang, conductor
Jonathan Biss, piano
CHEN Yi Landscape Impression
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
MOZART Symphony No. 39
Xian Zhang makes her Symphony Hall debut leading a work she premiered with the New Jersey Symphony in June 2023, Pulitzer Prize-winning 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.