Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Seong-Jin Cho Plays Prokofiev at Chicago Symphony Center

The cool of the Arctic meets the warmth of Italy. The brooding, majestic themes of Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony evoke the remote landscapes of conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s native Finland. Tchaikovsky transports listeners to a Roman carnival in his *Capriccio Italien*. Seong-Jin Cho, lauded for his “expert music-making … miraculous in its execution” (*The New York Times*), takes on Prokofiev’s incendiary Second Piano Concerto.