Sarasota Orchestra – Brahms & Elgar

Two Sarasota Orchestra debuts frame the Brahms & Elgar concert in the Van Wezel. Christian Reif, a German conductor with a Grammy to his name, takes the podium, and cellist Sterling Elliott, a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, is soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto, the elegiac work written in the aftermath of World War I that proved to be the composer's last major orchestral score. Brahms' Symphony No. 2, composed over a contented summer on Austria's Wörthersee in 1877, closes the program, and Julia Adolphe's Underneath the Sheen, a homage to California's redwood forests, opens it.