Debussy, Birtwistle, Liadov and Stravinsky - by Robert Kirzinger, narrated by Eleanor McGourty

Published: Feb. 6, 2015, 1 p.m.

Listen in to the Concert Preview! The BSO and estimable French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard for a new work written for Aimard: Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Responses: Of sweet disorder and the carefully careless, a BSO co-commission receiving its American premiere at these concerts. The work's subtitle references an essay collection by the British architect/historian Robert Maxwell, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton University.