Imagine...irrepressible imagination and flair from a Venezuelan virtuoso.
Gabriela Montero is the virtuoso who broke the mould - the Venezuelan pianist whose irrepressible imagination and flair for improvisation has put creativity back into the heart of the classical piano repertoire. 鈥淔or me, music is a purposeful art鈥�, she says, and today she stars in her own, exuberant Latin Concerto: not, she says, 鈥渁 na茂ve vision of a carnival continent鈥� but 鈥渁 profoundly personal expression of the continent in which I was born鈥�. Guest conductor Elim Chan frames it with classics old and new - Caroline Shaw鈥檚 21st century tribute to the music of the classical era, and Brahms鈥檚 mighty final symphony: an old master singing, dancing and raging against the dying of the light.
