Brahms, Strauss & Blacher

Showcasing the talents of Shepherd School Concerto Competition Winner Jonathan Mak, Brahms’s formidable Piano Concerto No. 2 courses with thundering power and luminous poetry. Mak won the top prize at the first annual Sorel-Tracy International Piano Competition in Québec in October with the same concerto. Music doesn’t get any more fun than Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, which follows a wily trickster as he upends the establishment...