Jorge Mester conducts and Robert Thies is the pianist in our next broadcast of the Louisville Orchestra on Classical 90.5, Thursday at 8 pm. Thies, who will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, is the first American pianist to win a Russian piano competition since Van Cliburn's famed triumph in Moscow in 1958. Jorge Mester hails Robert "a genius."
Peter Illych Tchaikovsky's emotional Symphony No. 6 is also on the program. Mester conducts the work on the heels of his last appearance which included Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6. The maestro says the latter work was influenced by Tchaikovsky's masterpiece.
Hector Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture begins the broadcast. Read Daniel Gilliam's review of this Louisville Orchestra performance here.