Gimeno Conducts Tchaikovsky 5

Presented by San Francisco Symphony

Kicking off with Market Street, 1920s, a thrilling new work by Principal Trombone Timothy Higgins, Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno returns to lead the San Francisco Symphony in a real dopamine hit of a program. Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony invites us to feel good, or at least better. The main theme, a musical representation of fate, remains deliciously elusive, but the overall structure follows the same model—minor to major, dark to light, sorrow to celebration—that Beethoven famously established in his own Fifth Symphony. Influenced by Schumann and Norwegian folk music, Grieg’s Piano Concerto makes us feel at home, happy and contented, while coaxing us toward new sonic adventures. The complex but catchy finale is Grieg’s delightfully demonic take on the halling, a traditional rural folk dance, which he turns into an infectious Nordic hoedown.

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Program Items

Timothy Higgins Market Street, 1920s: SF Symphony Commission and World Premiere
Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Performers

Gustavo Gimeno Conductor
Javier Perianes Piano
San Francisco Symphony

Davies Symphony Hall

Davies Symphony Hall

201 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States