An die Freude; Ode to Joy

Festival favorite Daria Rabotkina opens this all-Beethoven program with Beethoven’s Sonata in C Minor Op. 111- the composer’s final piano sonata, a sublime musical journey from darkness to light, and one of the great essays in the form.

Bobby Mitchell performs Beethoven’s iconic and beloved Symphony no.9 in D Minor Op.125 in the stunning arrangement for solo piano by Liszt. Through his masterful transcriptions, Liszt brought countless orchestral and operatic masterpieces into the homes of the amateur musicians and music lovers of the 19th century.