Classical Concerts, May 7-10, 2009
Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9
- Pianist Louis Lortie joins the Atlanta Symphony for Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. Robert Spano also conducts Liszt and Debussy. Atlanta Symphony Hall.
- "Ravishing" mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena is in recital at Spivey Hall, Clayton State, Morrow, with music by Schumann, DuParc, Berg and Purcell/Britten.
- Pianist Terrence Wilson appears with the Columbus Symphony in Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, and George Del Gobbo leads the orchestra in Wagner and Tchaikovsky. RiverCenter, Columbus.
- Star 20-something German violinist Julia Fischer fills her first recital at Spivey Hall, Clayton State, Morrow, with sonatas by Mozart, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Martinu.
- In Donald Portnoy's last appearance as music director, he leads the Augusta Symphony in its fifth annual Pops! Under the Stars concert. University Health Care System, Evans campus. Free.
- The Georgian Chamber Players and guest violinist Maria Bachmann offer a program of Romantic Russian chamber music by Taneyev and Arensky. Spivey Hall, Clayton State, Morrow.
