A work of searing drama and intensity, Schumann's Fourth Symphony charts an emotional journey to rapturous joy in one uninterrupted flow of achingly romantic music. Plus, Jeffrey Kahane mixes operatic lyricism with the playful intimacy of chamber music in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22, a work that "flows from Kahane's hands as refreshingly as water from a crystalline spring" (LA Times).
Elena Kats-Chernin: Big Rhap
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Jeffrey Kahane, Piano
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