Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and a Lindberg World Premiere




New York Philharmonic Podcast show

Summary: On May 3–5, Music Director Alan Gilbert conducts Dvorák’s festive Carnival Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, and presides over the World Premiere of the Piano Concerto No. 2 by The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg, a New York Philharmonic Co-Commission, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist. Alan Gilbert shares some thoughts on Magnus Lindberg’s three-year Philharmonic residency, and podcast host Mark Travis provides the history Dvorák’s concert opener, and a musical guide to Tchaikovsky’s fate-obsessed Fourth Symphony.