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Bach + Brahms
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs works by Bach and Brahms, including Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture and Piano Concerto No. 2, with pianist Anna Geniushene and Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann.
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November 5, 2026 · 8 PM
Atlanta Symphony Hall, 1280 Peachtree St ·
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The program pairs Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with his Academic Festival Overture and an orchestral suite by Bach.
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Brahms Revealed, the season-long Brahms festival, continues with a psychological profile of the composer. Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann kicks it off with a splendorous orchestral suite by Brahms's hero, Johann Sebastian Bach. She follows the suite with something of a joke. When the officials at the University of Breslau awarded Brahms an honorary degree, they hoped that he would write them a symphony. Ever bullheaded and often a tease, Brahms instead gave them the Academic Festival Overture, a rollicking piece packed with student drinking songs. In 1881, Brahms poured that same free spirit into his Piano Concerto No. 2. It's an absolute charmer for audiences, but a bear for the pianist. A concerto with the grandeur of a symphony, it is athletic, turbulent, tender, and fiery, and a perfect showcase for the talents of pianist and ASO Artist-in-Residence, Anna Geniushene.
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