Bountiful Harvest Music - This week on Harmonia, we're celebrating the harvest season. From pumpkins and cool breezes to the more spiritual aspects of remembrance and mortality, we've got bushels of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century tunes to put you in an autumn mood.
Flutist Brandon Patrick George is one of the young, up-and-coming musicians you'll hear regularly on Sunday Baroque. On his 2020 debut solo recording he played everything from a solo by a living Finnish composer solo flute music by Johann Sebastian Bach. You'll hear Brandon Patrick George play Bach from that debut album on Sunday Baroque this week.
CSO Music Director Emeritus leads a program featuring Tchaikovsky's Suites from The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, opening with Reznicek's Overture to Donna Diana.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Heinz Hall debut with the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1. Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts "Don Juan" by Richard Strauss, and Nina Shekhar's "Lumina."