Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Lang Lang, piano

Outi TARKIAINEN Day Night Day

GRIEG Piano Concerto      

intermission

DVORAK Symphony No. 9, From the New World

Superstar pianist Lang Lang joins Andris Nelsons and the BSO for the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s perennially popular Piano Concerto, which combines Romantic-era passion with elements of Norwegian traditional music. Similarly inspired by folk music, Antonín Dvořák was living in the U.S. when he composed the New World Symphony, which bursts with sweeping melodies blending Bohemian soul with the spirit of America and incorporates the sounds and songs of both worlds into the iconic and oft-quoted work we know today.