Nobuyuki Tsujii Plays Rachmaninov

Since winning joint Gold Medal at the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, Nobuyuki Tsujii has become an international piano star. His performances are unforgettable. Power, emotion and precision have won him lasting fame. Here, he returns to Benaroya Hall to play Rachmaninov’s famous Third Piano Concerto, which demands thunderous power and feather touch from its soloist almost in one moment. Brahms’ final symphony, the Fourth — full of beauty and warmth but also tinged with melancholy — completes the program. In this symphony, Brahms weaves a complex web of musical ideas, culminating in a call back to the majesty of a Baroque dance rhythm — the Chaconne — on which he builds a mighty finale.