Orchestra of St. Luke’s – Heras-Casado Debut at Carnegie Hall

Last night I attended the Orchestra of St. Luke’s subscription concert at Carnegie Hall.  Pablo Heras-Casado was making his first appearance at Carnegie Hall as principal conductor of the orchestra.  Christian Zacharias was the piano soloist in Chopin’s Concerto No. 2, Op. 21.  The program began with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, and continued after intermission with Hans Zender’s orchestration of five piano preludes by Debussy, concluding with the original 1841 version of Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. … <Read More>