The impeccable Dallas Symphony Orchestra joins Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits for music by Ukrainian women composers—including a world premiere!—and two enchanting works by Richard Strauss, to whom Karabits devoted a recent well-received album. First up is Strauss's Don Juan, which casts the legendary character less as a debauched libertine and more as a world-weary hero in search of true love. Next, celebrated cellist Inbal Segev takes the stage to play the lead role in the world premiere of award-winning Ukrainian composer Victoria Vita Polevá's Cello Concerto, before the ensemble turns to another new Ukrainian work: Anna Korsun's Terricone, premiered in January 2023 in Bournemouth, also with Karabits at the podium. The final piece on the program is the orchestral suite from Der Rosenkavalier, thought to have been adapted in 1945 by Artur Rodziński—then the leader of the New York Philharmonic—from Strauss's famous operatic score, over thirty years after the opera's premiere.

Photo: Inbal Segev © Bri Elledge