Conductor Marin Alsop leads the CSO in essential classics by Leonard Bernstein and Dmitri Shostakovich. The May Festival Chorus joins for Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, sacred music that illuminates a path to eternal peace, and which notably includes music cut from the Prologue of West Side Story. Shostakovich’s Leningrad marshals every artistic defense, and might of the whole Orchestra, against a merciless and tyrannical siege threatening to consume all.
01:13 Welcome from Guest Conductor Marin Alsop
03:52 Chichester Psalms
26:34 Feature Profile on Director of Choruses Matthew Swanson
44:22 Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7
Artists
Marin Alsop, conductor
Elessar DeHoff, boy soprano
May Festival Chorus , Matthew Swanson, director
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Program
BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7, Leningrad
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Wow thank you for the entire concerto! Its rare to see on youtubre something like this!
What a beautiful performance of Chichester!
Outstanding!!!! Great program, what a Chorus and Symphony!
I'm never sure about the Leningrad symphony, I was sure about the performance – bravo!
With over fifty years of subscribing,we can honestly say this was one of the best concerts ever presented in Music Hall — or anywhere. We hope PBS will share it as widely as possible.
great symphony great conductor great performance
Brava, maestra.
Excellent concert. I’ve viewed it twice and will listen again in the next day or two. Stunning performance by an exceptional symphony under the finest musical direction.
Goosebumps.
Bravo Tutti and Chef!
Love the timpanist at the very end of 7th Symphony using 2 mallets on the drums
I'm half through the first movement, and I can say that Marin Aslop mastered this symphony. Love the attention to timpani, strings' accents, french horns' unity and timbre of snare drums.