Classical Escapes 2023-24

Kern Plays Rach 3

February 01 - 03, 2024

Superstar Olga Kern performs the “Mount Everest” of piano concertos—one of the repertoire’s most powerful, most demanding and most popular works. Then, Brahms’ infinitely rich, astonishingly simple and exquisitely enchanting First Symphony.

PROGRAM:
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 
- Intermission -
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Carl St.Clair, conductor
Olga Kern, piano

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Mahler's Fifth

March 14 - 16, 2024

From its powerful opening trumpet solo to its triumphant finale, Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 is huge, sweeping and emotional—reflecting the composer’s journey from mourning to triumph. Upbeat and joyful, Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 is a cornerstone of the repertoire.

PROGRAM:
Ortiz: Kauyumari 
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major
- Intermission -
Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Carlos Miguel Prieto, guest conductor
Sterling Elliott, cello

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Tchaikovsky's Sixth

April 25 - 27, 2024

One of classical music’s enduring favorites, Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” is a musical representation of the composer’s private struggles, including his failing health and his difficult personal life: “Without exaggeration,” he wrote, “I have put my whole soul into this work.”

PROGRAM:
Donghoon Shin: The Hunter’s Funeral
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
- Intermission -
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

Shiyeon Sung, guest conductor
Yeol Eum Son, piano

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Beethoven's Ninth

June 06 - 08, 2024

Beethoven’s crowning achievement—a monumental fusion of soloists, chorus and music all set to Schiller’s magnificent “Ode to Joy.” When it premiered in 1824, conducted by Beethoven himself, he heard not a note, so profoundly deaf was he by then.

PROGRAM
Lauridsen: Lux aeterna
- Intermission -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Carl St.Clair, conductor
Pacific Chorale - Robert Istad, artistic director

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