PROGRAM:

SCHREKER: Prelude to Die Gezeichneten
STRAUSS: Oboe Concerto
RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 2

CSO Principal Oboist Dwight Parry takes center stage with the CSO this weekend, performing Strauss’ enchanting Oboe Concerto under the direction of Edo de Waart, among the world’s most prominent conductors. The Concerto begins with a rhapsodic extended “aria” for the oboe, followed by passages of extraordinary beauty and color. Rachmaninoff’s intensely passionate Symphony No. 2 opens with surging melodic motives and moves from one sumptuous phrase to another toward its superbly shaped, soaring finale.