Bass-baritones Ryan Speedo Green and Eric Owens join conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin in The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble’s final performance of the Carnegie Hall season. Hear selections from Terence Blanchard’s moving opera Champion, which receives its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 2023. Also included are Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite for Brass Quintet; Michael Tilson Thomas’s Street Song, a warm and popular brass composition that receives its Carnegie Hall debut; and an interesting pair of trios: Valerie Coleman’s Rubispheres, dedicated to urban life and landscapes; and Charles Wuorinen’s Trio for Trombone, Mallet Instruments, and Piano.
The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens