Passionate Dialogues

Pietro Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Johannes Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2
Clayton Stephenson, piano
Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish”

The program opens with Mascagni’s lyrical Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, drawn from the opera that launched him to international fame in 1890. Pianist Clayton Stephenson returns to Lexington Symphony with a passionate, intensely expressive performance of Brahms’s dramatic Second Piano Concerto. The evening concludes with Schumann’s exuberant Rhenish Symphony, a spirited [...]