Performer: Carl St Clair

Jeremy Denk's take on Brahms didn't impress Brahms, the Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor proving an unequal, if refreshing, contest. 

The Mozart was a immaculately smooth performance teased out with historically-informed ornaments and trills and turns. 

Renée Fleming joins the Pacific Symphony for Strauss, Italian Songs and Rodgers and Hammerstein.