With music of unbridled energy and shimmering orchestral color, five composers take you on a sweeping journey around the globe — from the windswept landscapes of Finland and Britain’s stormy North Sea to the hazy heat of Texas bayous and the bazaars of 19th-century Persia.

Program

Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides, Op. 26 (Fingal’s Cave)

Tobias Picker
Old and Lost Rivers

Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade
     Sun-Ly Pierce, mezzo-soprano

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 7 in C Major

Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a