Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Czech Philharmonic

Copland wrote his ballet score Appalachian Spring for a 13-member chamber ensemble in 1944. Since then, it has had several orchestral arrangements. The one on the programme is by the evening’s conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Balancing it out will be Schubert’s 9th Symphony “The Great”, composed as close competition of Beethoven’s symphonic works.