National Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Litton, formerly associate conductor of the NSO and now one of the hottest free-lance conductors in America and Europe, took the podium for this concert and also played a bit of piano. In Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, he whipped both the orchestra and the audience to a frenzy. After the intermission,...Litton conducted [Gershwin's Who Cares?] from the piano keyboard and took several solos, effectively catching the style of Gershwin himself...[Litton] is first-class throughout, as a pianist and a conductor.