Summary: Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO December 19-21. Christoph Eschenbach, renowned conductor and former Ravinia Festival music director, leads Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, surely the composer's most impressive achievement. Its opening's intense lyricism and brooding leads into the unforgettable hammering of the ferocious Scherzo and a final Adagio with sustained chords like streams of brilliant light.
