Britt Music & Arts Festival Live Concert: Huynh Conducts Strauss & Rachmaninoff

At 25 years old, Richard Strauss was already wrestling with ideas of life, death, and artistic fulfillment in his orchestral poem Death and Transfiguration, a moving meditation on the human experience and the celestial harmonies of the great beyond. Plus, Canadian piano prodigy Jaeden Izik-Dzurko makes his Britt debut in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto — a rollercoaster ride for piano and orchestra that tests the boundaries of the soloist’s strength and stamina — while Anna Meredith marries electronic dance music and the symphony orchestra in Nautilus, her “magnum opus of a banger” (GQ).