Your New Jersey Symphony Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall, presented by the Spring for Music Festival, which showcases six North American orchestras performing on six consecutive nights. Music Director Jacques Lacombe makes his Carnegie Hall debut with an adventurous program that explores the influences and vision of composer and teacher Ferruccio Busoni. Busoni’s rarely performed, intensely lyrical and massive five-movement Piano Concerto is a true tour-de-force, and Marc-André Hamelin is one of the few pianists today who performs it. Edgar Varèse and Kurt Weill studied with Busoni, and we hear clearly both Busoni’s influence and the different paths their own work took.

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Listen to the archive recording courtesy of WQXR

This performance is funded, in part, with a gift to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York, NY.