Virginia Symphony Orchestra: Rach 2 at Sandler Center for the Performing Arts

You will feel just the right mixture of jubilance and sweet romance between the bubbly carnival theme and tender love theme in Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture. But as international pianist Martina Filjak takes the stage, those feel-good emotions are sure to be replaced by a more somber attitude with the start of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. A dense and rich piece of music, it shows just how deft a pianist must be with their hands and why it is one of Rachmaninoff's most enduring pieces. Finally, become witness to a timpani duel in the anguished Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable" by Scandinavian composer Carl Nielsen.