World Premiere of Sollima’s “Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra”

Tonight at 7:00 on WILL-FM’s, “Evening Concert” it’s a World Premiere of a Chicago Symphony Orchestra Commission featuring the composer-cellist Giovanni Sollima with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Sollima’s “Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra”.  Also on the program Schubert’s 3rd and 4th Symphonies.

Tuesday April 15:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra (#14-15)

Riccardo Muti conducts Schubert

Riccardo Muti, conductor; *Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Giovanni Sollima, cello

SCHUBERT:  Symphony No. 3 in D Major, D. 200

*Giovanni SOLLIMA (b. 1962): Antidotum Tarantulae XXI, Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra (Yo-Yo Ma, Giovanni Sollima, cellos) [CSO Commission, World Premiere]
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417, Tragic
SCHUBERT: Entr'acte No. 3 from Rosamunde
VERDI: Patria oppressa! and Ballet Music from Macbeth