André Watts and friends

Attended a concert at Carnegie Hall with bro, JS and RV. But first things first, we ate burgers at the Burger Joint inside the Parker Meridien.

Description of the concert on their website.

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director and Conductor
André Watts, Piano

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"

Both the Brahms Concerto and Tchaikovsky Symphony on tonight’s program initially challenged the expectations of listeners in the late 19th century. Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto was the longest concerto written to that point, a work of symphonic proportions that boasts an added scherzo movement.

Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, known as the “Pathétique,” had the expected four movements, but seemingly in the wrong order—the work ends with a despairing slow movement that became a model for Mahler and later symphonists. As the composer died just nine days after conducting its premiere, the unusual format of the Symphony inevitably sparked considerable speculation about possible autobiographical implications.