We begin the evening with Georg Phillipp Telemann's Suite in D, TWV 55, masterfully performed on original instruments by The English Concert under Trevor Pinnock. Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra as we hear Sir Michael Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra, a work characterized by an energetic interplay of uneven, additive rhythms and bluesy harmonic inflections. That takes care of the Baroque and the 20th century. How about the Romantic era? Brahms's "Academic Festival Overture," rousingly played by the Houston Symphony under Christoph Eschenbach, ends our evening festivities with a flourish.
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