Noseda conducts Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben | Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven’s “Emperor” at Concert Hall at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Noseda brings the drama in Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben, a sumptuous, sonic self-portrait also depicting the composer’s wife, friends, and even his dreaded music critics. The program begins with Beethoven’s final, heroic piano concerto in the hands of returning favorite Leif Ove Andsnes—“a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight” (The New York Times).