2007 - 2008 Season

In Paavo's Notes, CSO Music Director Paavo Järvi speaks about what makes each of this season's concerts special. We thank WGUC90.9 interviewer Mark Perzel and WGUC90.9 production director Bruce Ellis for preparing these audio clips.

Concert Date	MP3 File
Sept. 14-15	A German Romantic Presence
	Atmospheric Beethoven
	Awadagin Pratt
Sept. 21-22	Preparing for Bartók
	Sharon Bezaly
Oct. 5-6	Rare Italian Gems
	Eddins is Electrifying
	Enrico Dindo
Oct. 11-12-13	A "Patchwork" Mahler Symphony
	Upside Down Program Order
	Vadim Repin
Oct. 26-27	Guest Conductor's Choice
	Bach is good for the soul
	Eri Klas
Nov. 2 -4	Stravinsky is close to Paavo's heart
	Symphony of Psalms is a breakthrough
	Pairing Beethoven's Eorica with Stravinsky
	Chorale Variations has unexpected turns
Nov. 9 & 10	The Perfect Place for Haydn
	Very Classical for 20th Century
Nov. 15 - 17	Enigmatic Mahler 7th - The Song of the Night
	Ingrid Fliter debuts with refreshing Mozart
Nov.30, Dec.1	Hans Graf brings hard-care Russian fairy tales from Liadov
	Audiences immediately love Khachaturian - part 1
	Audiences immediately love Khachaturian - part 2
	New World Symphony never gets old
Dec. 7 & 8	A sunny symphony for Beethoven
	Threnody makes a political statement
	Resurrection revision written for Barry Douglas
Jan. 12 & 13	Night on Bald Mountain is a great masterpiece
	Lexo can play anything
	Moody picturesque Dawn Over the Moskva River
	A Nielsen Symphony that doesn't sound like Nielsen
Jan. 17 - 19	Le tombeau de Couperin provides challenge to woodwinds
	Ravel's Piano Concerto for left hand
	Ravel creates colors in Pictures at an Exhibition
Jan. 25 & 26	Two Estonian composers, two trumpet concertos
	Bruckner is golden time for the listener
Feb. 8 & 9	Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen debuts
	The return of Lukas Vondracek
Feb. 16 & 17	Impressive Finnish conductor Susanna Malkki debuts
	New Music makes concert-going experience interesting
	Liszt and Strausss fit together in romantic tradition
Feb. 22 & 23	John Adams pairs his own award-winning work with famous Strauss piece
	Electric violin takes center stage
Feb. 28	Berezovsky brings his own stylings to the Rachmaninoff
	The ever popular Tchaikovsky
Mar. 7 & 8	Premiering a new piece
	Tchaikovshy in the hands of an exciting young artist
	Working through a Sibelius cycle
Mar. 14 & 16	Beautiful in every sense of the word
	Championing the Britten Violin Concerto
	Common denominator of Britten
	Connecting to musical worlds
Mar. 27 & 29	Recording Shastakovich 10 is Paavo's dream come true
	What more can be said of the immensely popular Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
April 24-26	39 is more than a number
	Paavo and Pinchas
	The Estonian folk sound of Veljo Tormis
	Something for Everyone