The world premiere of Nico Muhly’s new Baroque-inspired Piano Concerto, performed here by Alexandre Tharaud, is surrounded by three other works of time-hopping, genre-swapping proto-postmodernism:Paul Hindemith’s raucous Ragtime, based on a theme by J.S. Bach; Edward Elgar’s inventive transcription of Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in C minor; and Hindemith’s majestic Symphony Mathis der Maler.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts.
// September 27–28 at Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave. (Civic Center); tickets are available at sfsymphony.org.
