Jian Wang returns in Dvořák’s soaring Cello Concerto, a crown jewel of the cello repertoire. Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Suite transports you to the Golden Age of ballet.
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Nielsen Overture to Maskarade
Dvořák Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky Suite from The Sleeping Beauty
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conductor
Jian Wang cello
The crown jewel of cello repertoire, Dvořák’s heroic and soulful Cello Concerto marks the return of Jian Wang, a soloist with a lustrous sound and compelling interpretive ideas. Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Suite transports you to the Golden Age of ballet, painted in a thousand wondrous sounds. Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider opens the program with music from his native Denmark, in Nielsen’s quicksilver Maskarade Overture.
