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CSO - March Highlights

3/5 - Shani and Rana
Sergei Prokofiev          Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Classical)

Sergei                          Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rachmaninov              Beatrice Rana piano

Encore: Pyotr              Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Tchaikovsky                (for piano four hands)
Beatrice Rana and Lahav Shani, piano

Sergei Rachmaninov   Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Lahav Shani conductor
February 2023

Richard Wagner         The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

Richard Wagner         Forest Murmurs from Siegfried

Richard Wagner         Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Daniel Barenboim conductor

3/12 - Mäkelä Conducts Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz             Harold in Italy, Op. 16
Antoine Tamestit viola

Hector Berlioz             Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Encore: Georges         Adiagetto from Suite No. 1 from L’arlésienne
Bizet                            Klaus Mäkelä conductor
October 2025

Hector Berlioz             Les francs-juges Overture, Op. 3
Sir Georg Solti conductor

3/19 - Hrůša Conducts Má vlast
Gustav Mahler            Totenfeier Pierre Boulez conductor1996 (Deutsche Grammophon)

Bedřich Smetana         Má vlast

  1. Vyšehrad
  2. The Moldau
  3. Sárka
  4. From Bohemia’s Fields and Groves
  5. Tábor
  6. Blanik

Jakub Hrůša, conductor
May 2017

3/26 - Muti & Batallán
Georg Philipp             Trumpet Concerto in D Major, TWV 41: D7
Telemann                    Esteban Batallán trumpet
Riccardo Muti conductor
June 2025

Sergei Prokofiev          Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60
Fritz Reiner conductor
1957 (RCA)

Michael Haydn            Concerto for Trumpet in D Major, MH 104

Franz Schubert           Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 (Tragic)
Esteban Batallán trumpet
Riccardo Muti conductor
June 2025

Richard Strauss          Der Bürger als Edelmann, Op. 60
Fritz Reiner conductor