MARTÍN + SAY + BEETHOVEN

On Valentine’s weekend, LACO offers a tale of passion and intrigue, told through Fauré’s hauntingly beautiful score to the play Pelléas et Mélisande. The evening begins with a jolt of the contemporary: the world premiere of Michael Abels’s Concerto for Orchestra, bursting with Abels’s characteristic energy and color. Award-winning performer Fazil Say closes the program with Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, where Classical restraint gives way to Romantic turbulence—a work that, even after two centuries, still feels urgent and unsettled.

LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Jaime Martín, MUSIC DIRECTOR
Fazil Say, PIANO

PROGRAM
Michael Abels, Concerto for Orchestra WORLD PREMIERE*
Gabriel Fauré, Pelléas et Melisande, Op. 80
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

*Abels is commissioned through the Joan and Jeff Beal Fund for Living Composers, established to support composers currently working in the entertainment industry.