Our season-long Beethoven celebration starts with the most unique of his symphonies. Beethoven’s love of the beauty and power of nature shines through in his “Pastoral.” Smetana captures the majesty of mountains, the mystery of forests and the sound and spirit of the mighty Moldau.
SMETANA: Selections from Má Vlast
From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields
The Moldau
Blaník
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
Courtney Lewis, conductor