Following a successful performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Attergauer, Bulgarian conductor Rossen Milanov travels to upstate New York for two concerts at the Chautauqua Institution with the city’s namesake symphony orchestra.
On July 23, he conducts Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2, along with Franck’s Le Chasseur maudit and Strauss’s Tod und Verklärung. Two days later on July 25, Rossen helps the Institution to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the reconstruction of the Massey Memorial Organ with a trio of works featuring the instrument: Stokowski’s orchestration of Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, Poulenc’s Organ Concerto in G Minor, and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, “Organ.” Joining as soloist is organist Jared Jacobsen.