Slatkin Conducts Schubert and Prokofiev

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Leonard Slatkin conducts a musical journey that brings together Schubert and Prokofiev. The program includes the Rosamunde Overture and the famous Symphony No. 8, the “Unfinished”, alongside Prokofiev’s powerful Symphony No. 5, conceived as an affirmation of the greatness of the human spirit. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Leonard Slatkin proposes a journey from early Romanticism to the 20th century. Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture and Symphony No. 8, the famous “Unfinished”, have been shrouded in mystery for two centuries. In contrast to the beautiful melodicism of the Overture, in the “Unfinished” Schubert speaks to us from his most intimate self, through a brilliant music of concentrated and sorrowful beauty. The program concludes with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, composed in the midst of the Second World War and conceived by its composer as a hymn to the greatness of the human spirit. Schubert, Rosamunde Overture Schubert, Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished” Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5