German violinist Arabella Steinbacher performs Beethoven’s magnificent Concerto in D major for her Washington debut with the National Symphony Orchestra. Marek Janowski will conduct the melodious program, which also features Boris Blacher’s Orchestra-Variations on a Theme of Paganini and Richard Strauss’s “Death and Transfiguration.”

Although this is her first visit to the Kennedy Center, the virtuoso violinist played with the NSO conducted by Christoph Eschenbach during its recent European tour and looks forward to working again with the musicians.