Symphony Hall is also, of course, the provider of exciting concerts in its own right, of which highlights during the past year included Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Philharmonia in a memorable Shostakovitch Seventh Symphony and accompanying Evgeny K
issin in an awesome Prokofiev Second Piano Concerto; a revelatory Barber First Symphony from the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra under Eiji Oue; a world-stopping Haydn Piano Sonata no.