"Completely Novel and Ingenious": Brahms' Fourth

Name: "Completely Novel and Ingenious": Brahms' Fourth
Start: 2025-06-07T14:00:00-07:00
Location: Benaroya Hall

Schedule

Sat, 07 Jun, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Benaroya Hall | Seattle, WA

• PERCY GRAINGER | Green Bushes
• JENNY McLEOD | The Emperor and the Nightingale (U.S. premiere)
Soloist | Sydney Maltese, Narrator
• JOHANNES BRAHMS | Symphony No. 4 in e, Op. 98
The critic Eduard Hanslick was ecstatic in his praise of Brahms’ fourth and final symphony, lauding its “craftsmanship, strength, unbending consistency, and earnestness…” This simultaneously lyrical and robust symphony caps the Philharmonic’s season in a blaze of romantic vigor. Noted Seattle-based actress Sydney Maltese joins the orchestra for the U.S. premiere of Australian composer Jenny McLeod’s colorful setting of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Emperor and the Nightingale, preceded by a performance of Percy Grainger’s rumbustious take on the English folk song Green Bushes.