CSO Program Notes: Muti, Kavakos and Beethoven Violin Concerto

28/10/2019 17 min
CSO Program Notes: Muti, Kavakos and Beethoven Violin Concerto

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Episode Synopsis

A season-long Beethoven celebration continues with the composer’s dazzling Violin Concerto performed by the renowned Leonidas Kavakos, “the most deeply satisfying violinist performing today” (Philadelphia Inquirer). Riccardo Muti conducts this towering work along with a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands.