The music that we hear as children is forever etched into our memories. Umberto Clerici conducts this richly textured program featuring music by two composers who grew up to conquer the world’s concert halls but who never forgot their roots in rural areas of eastern Europe.

Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony is one of the cheeriest he ever wrote, drawing on the folk music of his native Bohemia to paint a vivid depiction of his people and his homeland. György Ligeti’s Concert Românesc was equally inspired by his childhood in Transylvania (now in Romania) and the village bands he heard as a child.