July 28
Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninoff 2
Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO-commissioned world premiere of Transfigure to Grace by former Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery. Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 are heard in the program. Rounding out the broadcast, we hear the U.S. premiere of Coleridge-Taylor’s Solemn Prelude from the 2022 Symphony Ball concert.
Conductor
Riccardo Muti
Richard Wagner
Overture to Tannhäuser
Jessie Montgomery
Transfigure to Grace
CSO Commission, World-Premiere
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Solemn Prelude