Program Highlight

Music by cellist and composer Andrea Casarrubios on SymphonyCast, Fri 12/15, 8pm

Classical 91.5 WXXO-FM

Published November 28, 2023 at 2:41 PM EST

Of composing, cellist Andrea Casarrubios says, “I love the feeling of an empty score, a blank book. I love imagining all the possibilities while discovering a new work."

12/1 Perry: Homunculus C.F. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 (Randall Goosby, v; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Louis Langrée, cond)

12/8 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole Montero: Piano Concerto No. 1, Latin Chávez: Symphony No. 2, Sinfonia India Falla: Suite from The Three-Cornered Hat (Gabriela Montero, p; Minnesota Orchestra; Carlos Miguel Prieto, cond)

“Composing is the one thing I do in life that is 100 percent who I am,” cellist Andrea Casarrubios insists.

12/15 Washington: Say Casarrubios: Overture and Chorale J. S. Bach: Chaconne from Partita

Schubert: String Quartet No. 14, Death and the Maiden (A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra)

12/22 Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Concerto for Two Pianos Prokofiev: Suites from Romeo and Juliet (Lucas & Arthur Jussen, p; WDR Symphony Orchestra; Krzysztof Urbański, cond)

12/29 Brahms: Tragic Overture Grieg: Piano Concerto Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, From the New World (Stanislav Kristenko, p; Lviv National Philharmonic; Theodore Kuchar, cond)