Yannick Leads Symphonic Rituals

Fifty-five years after Leonard Bernstein’s fierce, theatrical cry for peace premiered at the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC—and eleven after Yannick led The Philadelphia Orchestra’s only complete performances and recording of the work—the Orchestra reveals the stunning musical heart of this transformative masterwork in a new orchestral arrangement. Opening this powerful program is Brahms’s songful, evocative First Piano Concerto, performed by a “rising star in the classical world” ( The New York Times ).