Employing a titanic orchestra, including wind and thunder machines and offstage brass bands, Richard Strauss’ “An Alpine Symphony” is as awe-inspiring as the grand mountains it portrays. Navigate a cinematic musical journey inspired by the composer’s teenage adventures in the Austrian Alps, where you’ll take in crashing waterfalls, flowering meadows and raging storms as Strauss conjures nature in all its power and majesty.
Pianist Daniil Trifonov — an artist of staggering, superhuman ability — returns to the DSO with his “elegant touch, witty grace and poetic insight” (New York Times) to perform Scriabin’s mesmerizing Piano Concerto. A rhapsodic work that moves between moments of wistful melancholy and fevered romance, Scriabin’s concerto is sure to calm the mind and set hearts aflame.