Ravel Mother Goose Suite and Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Lucas and Arthur Jussen, pianos

RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
Andrew NORMAN New Work for two pianos and orchestra (world premiere; BSO co-commission)
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Popular Dutch duo-pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen return to Symphony Hall for a BSO-commissioned world premiere. This music was written especially for them by American composer Andrew Norman, winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his orchestral work Play. Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite brings the composer’s mastery of orchestral color to his fairy-tale suite, originally written for piano, four-hands. Closing the program is Sergei Rachmaninoff’s tour-de-force for orchestra, by turns powerfully energetic and meltingly lyrical: his Symphonic Dances, the composer’s final work.