A work of audacious technical demands and lyrical beauty, Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto was composed when he was just 17. Longtime Cleveland Orchestra friend Garrick Ohlsson revisits this work that helped put Rachmaninoff on the map as a composer and performer. Conductor Semyon Bychkov bookends the program with Wagner’s lyrical birthday present to his wife and Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony, which bursts with optimism from the first note to the last.
Part of Summers at Severance