September 15
Mäkelä Conducts Shostakovich 10
Sol Gabetta, whose “enthusiastic music-making and animated style are completely infectious” (Classical Voice), makes her CSO debut in Shostakovich’s captivating Cello Concerto No. 1 — a riveting journey through themes of defiance, sorrow, and triumph. Electrifying conductor Klaus Mäkelä frames the program with Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, a searing portrait of the composer’s tormented life in Stalinist Russia, and the U.S. premiere of Sauli Zinovjev’s vibrant Batteria.
Conductor
Klaus Mäkelä
Richard Strauss
Excerpt from Don Juan, Op. 20
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Sauli Zinovjev
Batteria
U.S. Premiere
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 107
Sol Gabetta, cello
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93