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2022-23 BSO Season

Lahav Shani conducts Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Saint-Saëns with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

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Israeli conductor Lahav Shani, making his Symphony Hall debut, and elegant French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet perform Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian, a brilliantly virtuosic but tuneful Romantic-era work for which Thibaudet is an ideal interpreter. Sergei Prokofiev’s delightful First Symphony was conceived as a 20th-century successor to works by Wolfgang Mozart and Joseph Haydn. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ingeniously constructed, brilliantly colorful Symphonic Dances was his last finished work.

Lahav Shani, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical (15)

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian (29)

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RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances (33)

Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 10:30am EST (Past)

Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 7:30pm EST (Past)

Fri, Feb 17, 2023, 1:30pm EST (Past)

Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 8:00pm EST (Past)

Performance Details

Feb 16, 2023, 10:30am EST

Featuring

Program Notes & Works

Symphony No. 1, Classical

Sergei Prokofiev

In his sunny First Symphony, Prokofiev channeled the airy style of Classical-era composers Haydn and Mozart.

Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian

Camille Saint-Saëns

Saint-Saëns wrote the Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian, in just three weeks while in Cairo, Egypt (hence the nickname).

Symphonic Dances

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff's last works, including Symphonic Dances, reveal tighter, clearer musical structure while still exhibiting his gifts for lush orchestration and memorable, heart-melting melodies.