Tchaikovsky, Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture, TH 42, ČW 39

Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Join the San Francisco Philharmonic for a plunge into a night of passion, fate, and fire. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture opens the concert with waves of emotion; based on Shakespeare's iconic play, it's a searing musical portrait of forbidden love and tragedy, in which tenderness collides with fate. After this tempest, the orchestra takes on Brahms’s towering Symphony No. 4 in E minor, a work of power and beauty. Its brooding [...]