This week’s Symphonies of Iowa encore broadcast features the Des Moines Symphony’s “Gerard Schwarz conducts Brahms” concert. Tune in on Monday, September 19 at 7 p.m. for this Symphonies of Iowa encore broadcast! The program includes music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Johannes Brahms.
Guest conductor Gerard Schwarz is world-renowned for his leadership at the Seattle Symphony and at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. At the invitation of Maestro Joseph Giunta, Gerard Schwarz leads the orchestra in Brahms’ sweeping Symphony No. 4. Julian Schwarz, first-place winner of the Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition, joins the orchestra for a unique father-son collaboration performance of Shostakovich’s impassioned Cello Concerto No. 1.
PROGRAM
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Suite from the Snow Maiden
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Gerard Schwarz, conducting
Julian Schwarz, cello
(Concert recorded Jan. 30-31, 2016)
