Continuing Season 14's In Concert series, “Ticket to Ride” took audiences on a musical journey of Europe by rail.
Conductor (see what we did there!) Brett Mitchell steered the proceedings in his ROCO debut, beginning with the world premiere of Jim Stephenson's tribute to miniature trains, ROCOmotive, then on to England and Germany with Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Poland with Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa, France with the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring Richard Belcher, ROCO principal cello, as soloist, and finally to Austria with Mozart’s Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”.
Recorded February 23, 2019 at The Church of St. John the Divine, Houston, TX.
Video by Blueprint Film Co.
