Yashima Conducts Schubert 5

This week, Erina Yashima makes her conducting debut with the CSO in concert, after holding the CSO’s Solti conducting apprenticeship from 2015 until 2019 and leading Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale for CSO Sessions. The program features works by Coleridge-Taylor, Schubert, and Kodály, plus Strum by Jessie Montgomery, the CSO’s Mead Composer-in-Residence. Rounding out the broadcast, Rafael Kubelík leads Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta from a 1951 Mercury recording.

Broadcast available through January 29, 2025

Coleridge-Taylor Novelettes Nos. 3 and 4, Op. 52
Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485
Montgomery Strum
Kodály Dances of Galánta
Erina Yashima conductor
June 2021

Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Rafael Kubelík conductor
1951 (Mercury)

Production
Brian Wise producer
Charlie Post audio engineer
Lisa Simeone host
Michael Schweppe host engineer
Neil Tevault host engineer

23-37

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