Summary: Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Feb 22-27. French pianist David Fray's Symphony Center recital last spring was called "musical poetry" by the Chicago Tribune. He returns to perform Chopin's tenderly lyrical Second Piano Concerto. Christoph Eschenbach, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, rounds out a richly romantic program with Carl Maria von Weber's noble overture to his opera Der Freischütz and two of Mendelssohn's most beloved masterpieces.
