FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 28, 2017 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5700;
[email protected] ANTONIO PAPPANO TO CONDUCT THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC BRITTEN’s Piano Concerto with The Mary and James G. Wallach ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE LEIF OVE ANDSNES SAINT-SAËNS’s Symphony No. 3, Organ, with Kent Tritle VAUGHAN WILLIAMS’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis February 8–10, 2018 Antonio Pappano will return to the Philharmonic to conduct Britten’s Piano Concerto (1945 version), with The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Leif Ove Andsnes as soloist; Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, Organ, with Philharmonic organist Kent Tritle; and Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Thursday, February 8, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, February 9 at 2:00 p.m.; and Saturday, February 10 at 8:00 p.m. Leif Ove Andsnes’s recording of Britten’s Piano Concerto with Paavo Järvi and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was released in 1999 by EMI Classics (now Warner Classics), and Gramophone described his performance as “ravishing,” with “an unflustered, aristocratic poise about it.” Mr. Andsnes and Mr. Pappano recorded Rachmaninoff’s complete piano concertos on two CDs, both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. Leif Ove Andsnes’s collaborations with the New York Philharmonic began in 1997. His appearances as Artist-in-Residence mark his only performances in New York City in the 2017–18 season. He will next perform Debussy’s Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra, led by Edward Gardner, April 26 and 28, 2018; reprise that work with the Orchestra at Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on April 27, 2018; and give a recital, May 2, 2018.