Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

Yunchan Lim, piano soloist

Symphony Hall

Sun. March 17, 7:00 PM

This performance is currently sold out. There may be some obstructed view inventory available via the Symphony Hall box office. Their number is 617-266-1200.

Two young superstars lead the way when the Orchestre de Paris makes a return to Celebrity Series for the first time since 1993/94.

Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, just twenty-eight, already has a major career, with appointments in Paris and Oslo, and an artistic advisor role at Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw. He makes his Celebrity Series debut with this concert.

Yunchan Lim, who in 2022 became the youngest pianist to win the Cliburn Competition, makes his Celebrity Series debut to perform the soloist part for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Debussy’s tone poem Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune opens the performance with a beautifully drawn moment of lightness, ease, and color. Stravinsky’s thrilling Firebird, heard in its complete version, brings this performance to a jaw-dropping close.

Program Details

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“You heard the confidence the musicians have in [Mäkelä]. All those treacherous and tricky stakes in Stravinsky’s complete ballet music for The Firebird / L’oiseau de feu sounded perfectly natural here. As if Mäkelä had instilled a dose of extra guts into his musicians in rehearsals. ”
Trouw (NL)