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Karina Canellakis conducts Tristan und Isolde & The Poem of Ecstasy | Alban Gerhardt plays DvoÅ™ák

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Karina Canellakis takes on feats of musical storytelling in this visionary program. Excerpts from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde capture a passion more powerful than death itself; Scriabin’s symphonic Poem of Ecstasy intoxicates listeners with a whirlwind of color and perfume. Alban Gerhardt opens the concert with a performance of DvoÅ™ák’s famous Cello Concerto.

Apr. 10 - 12, 2025

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  • Thu. Apr. 10, 2025 7p.m.

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  • Fri. Apr. 11, 2025 11:30a.m.

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  • Sat. Apr. 12, 2025 8p.m.

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  • Genre

    Classical Music

Program

Karina Canellakis, conductor
Alban Gerhardt, cello

Antonín DvoÅ™ák: Cello Concerto
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod
Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy

Karina Canellakis takes on feats of musical storytelling in this visionary program. Excerpts from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde capture a passion more powerful than death itself; Scriabin’s symphonic Poem of Ecstasy intoxicates listeners with a whirlwind of color and perfume.

Alban Gerhardt writes that DvoÅ™ák’s famous Cello Concerto showcases his instrument “at its best, as the melodic, sensual instrument it is, with a beautiful human voice which can whisper, cry, long—but also become angry and scream or threaten” with “fireworks and impressive passages.”

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