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February is….Love Your Symphony Month, so the February MasterWorks 4 concert performance features two great works from the Romantic repertoire – one of them by legendary Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. His Symphony No. 2 in D Major is perhaps the most often performed and approachable of his 7 symphonies. Symphony No. 2 was completed in 1902 shortly after the tremendous success of his tone poem and Finnish nationalist piece Finlandia, and it, too, is rich with musical images of Finnish geography and folklore.

Danubia highlights music from cultures of Central Europe including Austrian, Czech and Romanian. The concert opens with the George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D major composed in 1901. This is a one movement introspective work on a grand scale that employs themes from Romanian music tradition which the composer treats in a rhapsodic symphonic manner almost like a through-composed piece with an improvised feel.

Danubia highlights music from cultures of Central Europe including Austrian, Czech and Romanian. The concert opens with the George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D major composed in 1901. This is a one movement introspective work on a grand scale that employs themes from Romanian music tradition which the composer treats in a rhapsodic symphonic manner almost like a through-composed piece with an improvised feel.

Our upcoming concert Magic Mountain features the acclaimed pianist Andrew Tyson playing Grieg’s popular Piano Concerto in A minor; Night on Bald Mountain by Russian composer Mussorgsky and the great Johannes Brahms’ towering Symphony No 1 in C minor.