March 2025 Concerts
♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ♦ Lisiecki Performs Mozart Heinz Hall 03/07 7:30PM 03/09 2:30PM NORIKO KOIDE: Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain [PSO Premiere] MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 22 PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 Notes: Praised for his “pristine, lyrical and intelligent” playing (The New York Times), Jan Lisiecki returns to perform Mozart’s elegant and effervescent piano concerto. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony is filled with grand, sweeping, lyrical music tinged with brooding introspection. When his Fifth premiered in the US, Prokofiev’s picture graced the cover of Time Magazine, and the magazine’s lengthy profile of him quoted Koussevitzky’s assessment: “[The Fifth Symphony is] the greatest…