Summary: Music Director Alan Gilbert discusses opening and closing the program with two contrasting but heartfelt works by Wagner — his Siegfried Idyll and his Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde — as well as the dazzling technical prowess Håkan Hardenberger brings to his performances of HK Gruber's Aerial, and Philharmonic Program Annotator James M. Keller talks about what sets Mozart's striking Symphony No. 25 apart from the composer's earlier works.
