May 11, 2014
Performers
- The MET Orchestra
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor - Lynn Harrell, Cello
Program
ALL-DVORÁK PROGRAM
- Carnival Overture
- Symphony No. 7
- Cello Concerto in B Minor
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák has written many pieces that are mainstays of the orchestral repertoire, infused with exuberant dance rhythms and folk-music influences from his native Bohemia. The MET Orchestra and Music Director James Levine chart a course through the composer's indelible music, including his Seventh Symphony and Carnival Overture. The intrepid ensemble also performs his Cello Concerto in B Minor, a display of dramatic solo and orchestral writing on the largest scale which deftly showcases the timbre of the cello with selected soloists from the orchestra.