Summary: Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 10-15. Sir Mark Elder conducts a program of rousing Central European music, starting with Dvorak's quirky Scherzo capriccioso and ending with two haunting scores by Czech composer Janacek: a symphonic suite from his opera The Cunning Little Vixen and the wild and heroic Taras Bulba. Jeremy Denk, "a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs" (The New York Times), is the featured soloist in Bartok's thrilling Piano Concerto No. 2.
