This week's Symphonies of Iowa encore broadcast features Orchestra Iowa’s “Symphonie Fantastique” concert. The concert opens with Schumann’s Manfred Overture, the incidental music to the poem Manfred by Lord Byron.
Canadian pianist Winston Choi then joins Orchestra Iowa for Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.2, one of the most technically challenging concertos in the standard piano repertoire. The concert concludes with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a programmatic and revolutionary work telling the story of an imaginative artist through five distinct scenes.
Featuring:
Tim Hankewich, conductor
Winston Choi, Piano
SCHUMANN Manfred Overture
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2
BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique
