Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä
Alisa Weilerstein joins the Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vänskä January 8 through 14 to perform her “heart-wrenching” (New York Times) account of Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. The program also includes Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 and Kalevi Aho’s Gejia, Chinese Images for Orchestra. Find tickets and more information here.
Visit Alisa’s discography to discover her chart-topping recording of Dvorák’s Cello Concerto on Decca Classics, with the Czech Philharmonic under Jirí Belohlávek. According to the New York Times, the interpretation is distinguished by a “take-no-prisoners emotional investment that is evident in every bar”.