Sibelius and Brahms

Finnish conductor and composer Osmo Vänskä, whose term as Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra has been widely celebrated, won a Grammy for his interpretations of Sibelius. He leads the LA Phil in the composer’s heroic Third Symphony, with its soaring horns. “One of the most admired pianists of his generation” (The New York Times), Inon Barnatan returns to LA to play Brahms’ massive—and massively powerful—Piano Concerto No. 1, one of the composer’s early hits that makes Herculean demands of the soloist.