Work: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major, Op.83

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and its future Music Director revel in a Brahms piano concerto with ideal collaborator Daniil Trifonov and an energetic Dvořák 7. 

Kahchun Wong returns to Singapore, displaying definite ideas about Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, despite its ambivalence and seemingly open-ended message. 

Brahms vs Tchaikovsky, the final showdown? Perhaps not, but a close-run contest  between a deeply thoughtful Brahms Second Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. Was there a winner?