Romanticism and the Romantic spirit abound in this program featuring music by several of our most beloved composers. Two major orchestral showpieces—Le Corsaire Overture by Berlioz and the Manfred Symphony by Tchaikovsky—are suggested by works of the great English Romantic poet Lord Byron and share Byron’s dramatic intensity and flamboyance. The Boston Herald claims that glamorous Russian pianist Olga Kern “shoots off rockets” with her reading of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Romanticism and the Romantic spirit abound in this program featuring music by several of our most beloved composers. Two major orchestral showpieces—Le Corsaire Overture by Berlioz and the Manfred Symphony by Tchaikovsky—are suggested by works of the great English Romantic poet Lord Byron and share Byron’s dramatic intensity and flamboyance. The Boston Herald claims that glamorous Russian pianist Olga Kern “shoots off rockets” with her reading of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Romanticism and the Romantic spirit abound in this program featuring music by several of our most beloved composers. Two major orchestral showpieces—Le Corsaire Overture by Berlioz and the Manfred Symphony by Tchaikovsky—are suggested by works of the great English Romantic poet Lord Byron and share Byron’s dramatic intensity and flamboyance. The Boston Herald claims that glamorous Russian pianist Olga Kern “shoots off rockets” with her reading of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.