Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto

In Beethoven’s world, you never know what is around each corner: terror or tenderness, joy or sorrow. American pianist Jonathan Biss plays the grand First Piano Concerto, opening a season-long Beethoven concerto cycle. In Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, a Roman general swings between caring and warmongering. Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza memorializes Beethoven with shock and surprise. Come face-to-face with the drama of Schumann’s Fourth Symphony ...