A concert by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, featuring works by J.S. Bach and Johannes Brahms, including the Piano Concerto No. 2.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is at Atlanta Symphony Hall on Thursday, November 5, for a program that pairs J.S. Bach with Johannes Brahms. Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann is on the podium, and ASO Artist-in-Residence Anna Geniushene takes the piano. The night is part of Brahms Revealed, the orchestra's season-long festival that builds a psychological profile of the composer.
Stutzmann opens with Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, a nod to the composer Brahms looked up to as a hero. From there, the program moves into Brahms's Academic Festival Overture, a rollicking piece built around student drinking songs. Brahms wrote it for the University of Breslau as a bit of a tease: they'd awarded him an honorary degree and were expecting a full symphony in return, and he gave them this instead.
The main event is Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, which Brahms wrote in 1881. It's a massive work, described as having the grandeur of a symphony and a real pull for the audience, but a bear for the pianist—grand, athletic, turbulent, tender, and fiery all at once. The whole evening is billed as part of the Delta Classical Series 3.
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Tickets start at $96, and the concert runs at 8 PM. If you can't make the Thursday night, there's a second performance on Saturday, November 7, also at 8 PM, at the hall in the Woodruff Arts Center.
