Alan Gilbert and Lang Lang




New York Philharmonic Podcast show

Summary: Elliott Forrest hosts this podcast in which Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert speaks glowingly of the music of Magnus Lindberg, The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, whose Feria is being performed. Mr. Gilbert also talks about his shared history with piano superstar Lang Lang, who will be playing Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Mr. Forrest offers a musical preview of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, which Alan Gilbert describes as an "exciting piece to perform," with "propulsive, rhythmic power."