Summary: Podcast host Mark Travis and Philharmonic Director of Education Theodore Wiprud discuss the two Russian works on this program, exploring the appeal of Shostakovich’s youthful yet finely crafted First Symphony, and the context and character of Rachmaninoff’s tone poem The Isle of the Dead. Soprano Deborah Voigt, who is joining the Orchestra for Schoenberg’s Erwartung, talks about this psychodrama’s artistic rewards and technical challenges.
