July 21
Alsop & Vondráček
Marin Alsop returns to the Orchestra Hall podium to lead Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Opening the program, we hear Barber’s First Symphony, followed by Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, featuring Lukáš Vondráček. Selections from West Side Story—composed by Alsop’s mentor Leonard Bersntein—complete the broadcast.
Conductor
Marin Alsop
Samuel Barber
Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Lukáš Vondráček, piano
Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (Enigma)
Leonard Bernstein
Prologue, Tonight, Rumble, and Somewhere from West Side Story
Daniel Barenboim, conductor