Brahms, Adams, Prokofiev and Bartók - by Richard Dyer, narrated by Eleanor McGourty

Summary: Listen to the Concert Preview! American conductor David Robertson returns to the BSO podium and is joined by the remarkable English pianist Nicolas Hodges in his BSO debut. Hodges has previously performed at Tanglewood in recital and with the TMC Orchestra; here he is soloist with the BSO in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2. Robertson also leads a work dedicated to the conductor himself-the American composer John Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony, which is drawn from the composer's 2005 opera about the building of the first atom bomb. Brahms's dramatic "Tragic" Overture begins the program, and Bartók's "Miraculous Mandarin" ballet suite closes it.