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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
An encore broadcast of this concert will play on August 21, 2026 at 9pm EDT. This broadcast originally aired on December 3, 2025. Program notes courtesy of Carnegie Hall.When pianist Seong-Jin Cho last performed one of Rachmaninoff’s orchestral works at Carnegie Hall, a modern-day legend was born. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) now invites Cho to perform another of the composer’s pulse-quickening piano-and-orchestra showpieces: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This exciting program also features Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, for which the PSO earned a Best Orchestral Performance…
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