This pair of works takes classical music to the heights of celebration and mirth. Giuseppe Gibboni performs Wynton Marsalis’s exuberant Violin Concerto, rooted in the blues with thrilling high-wire feats for the soloist. Shostakovich’s Ninth is one of the composer’s most jovial symphonies, a defiant laugh in the face of Soviet oppression.

Jader Bignamini, conductor
Giuseppe Gibboni, violin

WYNTON MARSALIS Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9