Johannes Brahms transcends 20 years of self-doubt and creative struggle in his First Symphony, a work of heightened lyricism that ends in a blaze of orchestral glory, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold evokes the sounds of Hollywood’s Golden Age in his achingly romantic Violin Concerto.

Program

Ke-Chia Chen
A Lasting Bond

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
     William Hagen, violin

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68