Xian Conducts Saint-Saëns Featuring Daniil Trifonov

Join Music Director Xian Zhang and superstar pianist Daniil Trifonov for an evening of French elegance. Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto is full of wit and quick humor that turns on a dime. From a stern Bach-like fantasia to a dancing frenzy, it’s the perfect vehicle for one of the world’s greatest pianists. Fauré’s Pavane serves as an even-tempered prelude, serene and as courtly as the dance that inspired it. On a different scale, Franck’s Symphony — the only one he wrote — dates from the height of his powers and reveals a composer questing [...]