Gandolfi, Poulenc, and Tchaikovsky Robert Spano, conductor
Audio Concert Preview by Robert Kirzinger, BSO Publications Associate
About the Music
American composer Michael Gandolfi’s The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, commissioned by the BSO, takes its title from a book by architect Charles Jencks, a photo essay about a Scottish garden Jencks designed. Also on the program is the French composer Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, Timpani, and Strings, a 1938 score here featuring the great English organist Simon Preston. Tchaikovsky’s emotionally intense Symphony No. 6 is a cornerstone of the late Romantic orchestral repertoire.