Cellist Yo-Yo Ma plays Lalo’s “Cello Concerto” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma collaborates with conductor Charles Dutoit on an all-French Composers program from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein plays Elgar’s “Cello Concerto” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
It's our first program in the new Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra series. Tonight it's Elgar's "Cello Concerto" and Brahms "A German Requiem".
Jaap Van Zweden and Alisa Weilerstein: Prokofiev and Britten on the Evening Concert
Alisa Weilerstein has established herself as one of the leading cellists of the day. She 'tackles' (so to speak) Prokofiev's "Symphony-Concerto' tonight on the "Evening Concert"
Schumann’s “Cello Concerto” & Mendelsohhn’s 5th Symphony on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
The Schumann "Cello Concerto" was composed in 1850. The premiere, sad to say, was made four years after Schumann's death. Mendelssohn's 5th Symphony pre-dates the Schumann "Cello Concerto" by 20 years.
Prieto conducts, Yo-Yo Ma solos in Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the CSO on the “Evening Concert”
It is believable that Dvorak was inspired to take on and complete a request to compose a "Cello Concerto" after hearing Victor Herbert's 2nd Cello Concerto.