Program

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
Antonín Dvořák

No. 52 I. Saying Goodbye
Richard Ayres

Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92
Ludwig van Beethoven

Russian conductor Anna Rakitina leads works by two composers who have lived with hearing loss—Beethoven, whose hearing struggle began a decade before the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, and British composer Richard Ayres, whose No. 52 explores, in the composer’s words, “one specific subject: Ludwig van Beethoven’s hearing loss and its effect on him.” Soloist Sterling Elliott, in his CSO debut, brings “impeccable technique and musicality” to Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

Program

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
Antonín Dvořák

No. 52 I. Saying Goodbye
Richard Ayres

Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92
Ludwig van Beethoven

Russian conductor Anna Rakitina leads works by two composers who have lived with hearing loss—Beethoven, whose hearing struggle began a decade before the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, and British composer Richard Ayres, whose No. 52 explores, in the composer’s words, “one specific subject: Ludwig van Beethoven’s hearing loss and its effect on him.” Soloist Sterling Elliott, in his CSO debut, brings “impeccable technique and musicality” to Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

Program

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
Antonín Dvořák

No. 52 I. Saying Goodbye
Richard Ayres

Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92
Ludwig van Beethoven

Russian conductor Anna Rakitina leads works by two composers who have lived with hearing loss—Beethoven, whose hearing struggle began a decade before the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, and British composer Richard Ayres, whose No. 52 explores, in the composer’s words, “one specific subject: Ludwig van Beethoven’s hearing loss and its effect on him.” Soloist Sterling Elliott, in his CSO debut, brings “impeccable technique and musicality” to Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.