Performer: Michael Stern

The composer's powerful When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd anchored a thought-provoking program led by Michael Stern.

Gil Shaham is the outstanding soloist in Saint-Saëns' Third Violin Concerto as a new season gets under way. 

A refined but unromantic rendition of Brahms' Violin Concerto by Midori following compelling account of Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour and Debussy's La Mer.