Performers
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor Laureate
Hélène Grimaud, Piano

Program
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical”
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G Major
STRAVINSKY Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra
HAYDN Symphony No. 103, “Drumroll”

“Papa” Haydn was stylistic father to his immediate successors and 20th-century masters who adopted a neo-classical style. His inventive “Drumroll” Symphony is one of his finest works and might have inspired Prokofiev’s effervescent “Classical” Symphony. In this delightful work, he cleverly emulates Classical-era scoring and tone, but remains firmly in the 20th century. Ravel’s dazzling concerto also looks back to the Classical era, especially in its tender central movement, but this reverie is framed by bubbly high spirits, flashes of jazz, and sizzling virtuosity.