Slavic Legends

Slavic legends weave fate, remember innocence lost and journey the winding Vltava River. 

In her CSO debut, Ukranian conductor Oksana Lyniv leads a program that weaves together powerful stories. Evgeni Orkin’s Five Interrupted Lullabies opens with a series of haunting lullabies, each symbolically interrupted to mark innocence lost to war. Smetana’s “The Moldau” spins and swirls as it journeys along the winding Vltava River, while Dvořák’s Golden Spinning Wheel weaves a tale of fate and destiny, where enchanting melodies intertwine with dark, mysterious forces. Esther Yoo joins for Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, written during the 1917 Russian Revolution and telling a story all its own. 

Program

Evgeni Orkin Five Interrupted Lullabies 
Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 
Antonín Dvořák Golden Spinning Wheel 
Bedřich Smetana "Vltava" (“The Moldau”) from Má vlast (“My Country”)

Artists

Oksana Lyniv conductor 
Esther Yoo violin