Conductor Shao-Chia Lü leads in the NSO in a mostly Russian program that opens with a little-known work by a little-known conductor and ends with one of music history’s best-known composers in what is probably his best-known work. Anatoly Liadov’s most memorable quality was his penchant for laziness and procrastination. He composed little, so if he turns up seldom on symphony programs, well, that’s his own fault! Stravinsky, on the other hand, has gone down as the composer of the twentieth century. Placing Liadov and Stravinsky’s Firebird ballet score on the same program is entirely fitting, as Liadov was asked to provide the Firebird music before Stravinsky was, but he declined. The Firebird made Stravinsky famous overnight – so famous that he eventually became known as “Mr. Firebird”! In between the Russians we hear Taiwanese violinist and this season’s artist-in residence with the NSO, Paul Huang, in the Brahms concerto, widely regarded as one of the two greatest ever written for the instrument (Beethoven’s is the other).