Listen to the performance on Classical 89.7 on Saturday, August 8 at 2 p.m.
For the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s 2017-18 season finale, the orchestra performed Bernstein’s Fancy Free Variations from the ballet about three sailors on shore-leave in New York City, followed by one of Beethoven’s most famous concertos, Piano Concerto No. 5, spotlighting the virtuosity of rising star Danae Dörken, and ending with the spiritual grandeur of Prokofiev’s 5 th symphony.
BERNSTEIN Fancy Free: Three Dance Variations
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 (Danae Dörken, piano)
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
Recorded May, 2018