CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Mazzoli & Tchaikovsky Pathétique

22/09/2021 19 min
CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Mazzoli & Tchaikovsky Pathétique

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Episode Synopsis

Tchaikovsky called his Pathétique Symphony “the best and especially the most open-hearted of my works.” Riccardo Muti leads this masterful and deeply tragic score, which was the last of Tchaikovsky’s works to be premiered during his lifetime. It is preceded by Liadov’s luminous nighttime scene and former Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli’s evocative meditation on her father's experiences as a soldier in Vietnam.

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