A work of audacious technical demands and lyrical beauty, Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto was completed when he was just 18. 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 Smetana’s love letter to his homeland and Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony, which bursts with optimism from the first note to the last.
Part of Summers at Severance