Wagner Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and “Liebestod” Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 George Li, piano

Darko Butorac, conductor Adele Anthony, violin Beethoven  Egmont Overture Mozart  Violin Concerto No. 5, "Turkish" Schumann  Symphony No. 4 In an evening of Austrian and German delights, the Asheville Symphony presents a program featuring Mozart’s “Turkish” Violin Concerto plus works by Beethoven and Schumann. The concert opens with Beethoven’s EgmontOverture, which Maestro Butorac describes as “a microcosm of all the traits we love about the great composer — powerful, direct, full of contrast, and imbued with a revolutionary spirit.” Violinist…

Bernstein  Chichester Psalms Bernstein  Missa Brevis Bernstein  Choruses from Candide Bernstein  Medley from West Side Story Asheville Symphony Chorus

Bates  Mothership Ellington  New World A-Comin’ Gershwin  Variations on “I Got Rhythm” Ellington  Harlem Gershwin  An American in Paris Aaron Diehl, piano

Cirque Musica presents Crescendo with the Asheville Symphony Cirque Musica blends the grace and skill of the world’s greatest cirque performers with the stunning symphonic music of your Asheville Symphony.

Offenbach  Overture to Gaîté Parisienne Saint-Saëns  Cello Concerto No. 1 Poulenc  Gloria Berlioz  La Marseillaise Asheville Symphony Chorus Daniel Kaler, cello Laura Strickling, soprano

Kodály  Dances of Galánta Dvořák  Violin Concerto Beethoven  Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” Alexi Kenney, violin

Lang  Gravity for piano Four Hands Schubert  Sonata in C Major for Piano Four Hands, “Grand Duo” Lang  After Gravity for Two Pianos Brahms  Sonata in F Minor for Two Pianos Shai Wosner & Orion Weiss, piano

Mozart  Symphony No. 25 Rachmaninoff  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Rachmaninoff  Piano Concerto No. 2

Handel  Messiah, Parts II and III Asheville Symphony Chorus with members of the Asheville Symphony

Márquez  Danzón No. 2 Saint-Saëns  Violin Concerto No. 3 Stravinsky  The Rite of Spring Simone Porter, violin