Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra Plays Rachmaninov

Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre creates a strikingly demonic image of skeletons rising from their graves at Halloween, bones rattling as they dance for Death. And there’s devilish difficulty in Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, completed in 1917 against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, especially in the breathless central scherzo, swirling with technical challenges. With an affinity to...