Estonian-American conductor Paavo Järvi’s return to Davies Symphony Hall delivers passion and pyrotechnics aplenty with Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, which showcases the Berlin-based Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein. Mahler's Seventh Symphony opens with a slow and shadowy first movement and closes with a euphoric, tempo-switching, Mozart-quoting rondo finale that has always been hater bait, but who cares? Let the boring killjoys blabber on about incoherence while the rest of us bask in its brilliant sunshine.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7
Performers
Paavo Järvi
Conductor
Kirill Gerstein
Piano
San Francisco Symphony