Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund leads the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a Nordic-leaning program opening with Stenhammar’s late-Romantic showpiece Excelsior!. Pianist Andrea Lam performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, composed during a period of personal and professional upheaval, and famously rejected by pianist Nikolai Rubinstein before Hans von Bülow gave it a…

Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund leads the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a Nordic-leaning program opening with Stenhammar’s late-Romantic showpiece Excelsior!. Pianist Andrea Lam performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, composed during a period of personal and professional upheaval, and famously rejected by pianist Nikolai Rubinstein before Hans von Bülow gave it a…