Exuberance abounds in audacious works by Sibelius and Saint-Saëns.
Program
Wang LU: Surge
SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No. 3
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1
Venue
Music HallConcert Duration
Approximately 93 minutes, including intermissionSeries
Saturday Evenings C
Sunday Afternoons
What's Interesting
Sibelius’s First Symphony arrives with the composer’s icy and expansive musical language fully formed, forged from influences by Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Beethoven. Violinist Benjamin Beilman joins the CSO for Saint-Saëns’ Third Concerto, a piece that oozes melodic and technical exuberance. Wang Lu’s Surge bottles the rush of hearing an orchestra for the very first time.
Sponsors
CSO Season
Sponsor
Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.
Surge was commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.