The world premiere of Nico Muhly’s new Baroque-inspired Piano Concerto is surrounded by three other unmissable and underrated works of time-hopping, genre-swapping proto-postmodernism: the cerebral mischief of Paul Hindemith’s raucous Ragtime, based on a theme by J.S. Bach; Edward Elgar’s inventive transcription of Bach’s Fantasia & Fugue in C minor; and Hindemith’s Symphony Mathis der Maler. The last takes a 16th-century artist’s struggles against repression as the basis for a majestic symphonic triptych.
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Program Items
Paul Hindemith
Ragtime (Well-Tempered)
Nico Muhly
Piano Concerto [SF Symphony Commission and World Premiere]
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Edward Elgar)
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537
Paul Hindemith
Symphony, Mathis der Maler
Performers
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conductor
Alexandre Tharaud
Piano
San Francisco Symphony