Bravo! Vail Music Festival: The Philadelphia Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony

"This is an enthralling, voluptuous dream of a program, a musical marriage made in heaven for the famous 'Philadelphia Sound.' The gentle longing of Penelope Waits set the scene for the serious, intelligent, and virtuosic music-making of Kirill Gerstein in a dazzling concerto by Liszt. Finally, Rachmaninoff’s magnificent Third Symphony, which intertwines a modern melancholy with lustrous, life-affirming Romanticism."

STACY GARROP: Penelope Waits
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125
RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

With Stéphane Denève, conductor and Kirill Gerstein, piano.