Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony is a sunny celebration filled with folk tunes he heard on a holiday with family. Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto contrasts a darkly lyrical opening and a vigorous finale, performed here by violinist James Ehnes. To open the program conducted by Elim Chan, the SF Symphony commissioned a new work from Elizabeth Ogonek, whose Sleep & Unremembrance was hailed last season as “a marvelous musical dreamscape” by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Program Items
Elizabeth Ogonek
New work [San Francisco Symphony Commission, World Premiere]
Violin Concerto No. 2
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 2
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performers
Elim Chan
Conductor
James Ehnes
Violin
San Francisco Symphony