San Francisco Symphony: Susanna Malkki

Susanna Mälkki makes her SFS debut conducting the First Symphony of her famous countryman. Although less thoroughly nationalistic as Finlandia, the symphony presents Sibelius’s early attempt to harness western idioms while maintaining his uniquely Finnish voice. The much admired Cuban-American pianist Horacio Gutiérrez performs Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, a work that presents classical elements of form and melody surrounded by modern harmonies and dissonances.

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Conductor/Performers:

Susanna Mälkki
conductor

Horacio Gutiérrez
piano

San Francisco Symphony

Program:

Grisey
Modulations from Les Espaces acoustiques

Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 3

Sibelius
Symphony No. 1