Colorado Music Festival: Sibelius’ Second Symphony and Violinist Randall Goosby

"The youngest recipient ever to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition and an artist dedicated to the dynamic music of Black composers, violinist Randall Goosby joins the Festival to perform a scintillating work by Saint-Saens and Florence Price’s sweeping Second Violin Concerto. This concerto by Price was lost to history until 2009; similarly, the orchestral version of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Solemn Prelude was only recently rediscovered. The energetic yet graceful Ryan Bancroft, conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, joins the Festival to lead Sibelius’ sonorous Second Symphony; Sibelius once said of its first movement, 'It is as if the Almighty had thrown down the pieces of a mosaic for heaven’s floor and asked me to put them together.'"

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Solemn Prelude
FLORENCE PRICE: Violin Concerto No. 2
SAINT-SAENS: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
SIBELIUS:  Symphony No. 2, Op. 43

With Randall Goosby, violin.