classics from two of the greatest

Start the new year right with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, as they perform a selection from two of history's greatest classical composers. Opening the program with Chopin's elegant Piano Concerto No. 1, the orchestra play it home with Rachmaninoff's triumphant Symphonic Dances, featuring the exciting young pianist Jan Lisiecki.

Composed when he was twenty years old, Chopin's first Piano Concerto was composed and performed as part of his "farewell" to Poland in 1830, before settling down in Paris. Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances meanwhile was the only piece the composer wrote completely whilst living in America, completed in 1840 and enthralling crowds for centuries after.