CSO Program Notes: Muti conducts Beethoven & Wagner

08/03/2019 11 min
CSO Program Notes: Muti conducts Beethoven &  Wagner

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Episode Synopsis

Riccardo Muti leads a wide-ranging program featuring music from Rossini’s witty comic opera Il viaggio a Reims and Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser. Also on the program are two virtuosic concertos—one baroque and one contemporary—featuring CSO Piccolo Jennifer Gunn, and Beethoven’s cheerful Second Symphony.