Thursday-Saturday 2/9-11

Three species of Russian-ness are on offer at this week's concerts by the Minnesota Orchestra and rising conductor James Gaffigan. The curtain-raiser is a snippet from Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina," a "national music drama" left unfinished at the composer's death; the closer is Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique," the last and best of his later symphonies. Sandwiched between these is Prokofiev's much-reworked Sinfonia concertante for Cello and Orchestra, written for Mstislav Rostropovich and played here by Anthony Ross, the orchestra's principal, who has displayed a deep affinity for things Russian.