Summary: James M. Keller, New York Philharmonic Program Annotator and Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence, discusses the particular challenges of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, while Mark Travis explores Mussorgsky’s masterpiece Pictures at an Exhibition as well as Szymanowski’s Symphonie concertante and Richard Strauss’s Burleske – both featuring piano virtuoso Emanuel Ax.
