Performance on 3 - CBSO/Andris Nelsons

Catherine Bott presents a concert given at Birmingham's Symphony Hall, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of newly-appointed conductor Andris Nelsons, in music by Adams, Dvorak and Bartok. Featuring John Adams' The Chairman Dances, an orchestral arrangement of music from his opera Nixon in China, followed by Dvorak's Cello Concerto with German virtuoso Alban Gerhardt as soloist. Alban Gerhardt (cello) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons (conductor) Adams: The Chairman Dances Dvorak: Cello Concerto Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Followed by a focus on the Minnesota Orchestra's most recent recordings: Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, last movement Minnesota Orchestra Osmo Vanska, conductor BIS SACD-1816 Stephen Paulus: To Be Certain of the Dawn (III. Visions - Voices of Survivors & V’a Havta Le Reacha Kamocha) Minnesota Orchestra Minnesota Chorale Minnesota Boychoir Barry Abelson, cantor Elizabeth Futral, soprano Osmo Vanska, conductor Stephen Paulus, composer BIS CD-1726