
Donald Runnicles guest conducts the CSO in music by Elgar and Strauss
including the "Enigma Variations" and "Death and Transfiguration".
including the "Enigma Variations" and "Death and Transfiguration".
You'll hear "Romeo and Juliet" ballet music by Prokofiev, and "Scenes de ballet" by Stravinsky.
These two works both written within the last fifteen years of the 19th century could be seen as opposite to each other in 'sentiment': Elgar's musical portraits versus the pondering of one's life and passing.