Carnegie Hall

Experience the “bright future for classical music” (Musical America) exemplified by Carnegie Hall’s “superbly talented” NYO2 (New York Classical Review). Led by the “electrifying” (Los Angeles Times) Rafael Payare, this performance begins with Jimmy López’s creative orchestral homage to Afro-Peruvian music, Perú Negro. Shostakovich’s demanding Cello Concerto No. 1 features the brilliant Alisa Weilerstein, a Carnegie Hall headliner adored by audiences and fellow artists alike. The concert concludes with Prokofiev’s powerful Symphony No. 5, which the composer called “a symphony of the grandeur of the human spirit.”