Work: Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Robert Spano conducts a fine pairing of Romantic works in his final performance with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra after twenty years as their music director.

The soprano seemed to be duetting with players as much as conducting them in Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

Christine Rice gives an astonishingly performance in an evening of four powerful chamber pieces.

Classic works by Barber and Copland were performed alongside a contemporary composition that puts itself in conversation with the National Anthem.

The HK Phil display virtuosic brilliance in an energetic rendition of Shostakovich’s witty Symphony no. 9 under Jaap van Zweden