Program

Daníel BJARNASON: 
I Want to Be Alive - Trilogy for Orchestra

First Part: Echo/Narcissus (CSO Co-Commission)

SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5

Artists

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor

Christian Tetzlaff, violin

Venue

Music Hall

Series

Friday Morning & Saturday Evening A

What's Interesting

“One of today’s most in-demand violinists” (NPR), Christian Tetzlaff returns to Music Hall after last showcasing his “jaw-dropping virtuosity” (Cincinnati Enquirer) here in the Queen City in 2017. Conductor Gustavo Gimeno leads Tetzlaff and the CSO in Szymanowski’s sweepingly lyrical Violin Concerto and the first part of a multi-year trilogy by composer Daníel Bjarnason. Tchaikovsky’s wellspring of melodies is on display in his Fifth Symphony — opening with a fateful funeral march, winding through a sonorous solo horn song and lilting waltz, then finishing with bombastic brass.