Work: Piano Concerto no. 2 in G major, Sz 95

New to Seattle, guest conductor Dalia Stasevska wowed audience and orchestra alike in her superb direction of a very varied program.

The ASO and Maestro Spano have started out the orchestra’s 75th anniversary year with hot-blooded performances that matched Atlanta's weather. 

Yefim Bronfman was the powerful soloist in Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto. Welser-Möst’s expressionistic reading of Prokofiev’s Third Symphony evoked nightmares of tormented souls.