Yo-Yo Ma plays Shostakovich’s “2nd Cello Concerto” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast”.  Yo-Yo Ma is the soloist in Shostakovich’s “2nd Cello Concerto”. Music Director Riccardo Muti conducts. Also on the program Prokofiev’s “3rd Symphony” and selections from his “Romeo and Juliet”.  

Tuesday February 26: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast (CSO 19-09)

Riccardo Muti and Yo-Yo Ma (recorded at three concerts given June 2018)

Shostakovich: Festive Overture; and Cello Concerto No. 2 (Yo-Yo Ma, cello)

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3

[CSO fill: Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: No. 16, Madrigal; No. 11, Arrival of the Guests (Minuet);

No. 12, Masks; No. 38, Romeo and Juliet; No. 35, Romeo Decides to Avenge Mercutio's Death]