About This Event

Making her Symphony Hall debut, BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Rakitina leads the orchestra in BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès's sparklingly colorful orchestral work Polaris. The program continues with one of the most popular piano concertos of all time, Rachmaninoff's Second. Israeli-American virtuoso Inon Barnatan is soloist in this soulful, challenging work, which the composer himself played with the BSO on several occasions. Elgar's orchestral tour-de-force Enigma Variations encompasses a remarkable expressive range, by turns poignant, charming, humorous, and stately.