CAPUÇON PLAYS DANNY ELFMAN - MTT Conducts

Cellist Gautier Capuçon joins Michael Tilson Thomas and the Orchestra for the U.S. premiere of the Cello Concerto by heralded film and concert composer Danny Elfman. The program is framed by showpieces for two sections of the SF Symphony: Igor Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments marries the composer's flair for shock and drama with perhaps an even greater surprise, a supremely serene and understated finale. The string section gets the last word with Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's charming and sumptuously romantic Serenade for Strings.


ARTISTS

Michael Tilson Thomas - CONDUCTOR

Gautier Capuçon - CELLO

San Francisco Symphony


PROGRAM

Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Igor Stravinsky

Cello Concerto
[San Francisco Symphony Commission, U.S. Premiere]
Danny Elfman

Serenade for Strings
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky