Sibelius's First Symphony at Blossom Music Center

The Cleveland Orchestra
David Robertson, conductor
Conrad Tao, piano
With the Kent Blossom Chamber Orchestra

SNIDER Something for the Dark

ADAMS Century Rolls

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1

Sibelius’s First Symphony opens with mystery — the breathy sound of a single clarinet gradually joined by the distant rumbling of timpani — giving way to gorgeous, romantic, searching melodies. Century Rolls, commissioned and recorded by The Cleveland Orchestra, was inspired by the old piano roll music of the 1920’s: “The concerto takes a kind of polymorphous-perverse pleasure in the whole past century of piano music, both popular and classical.”