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Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 | 8 PM
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Andris Nelsons, Conductor

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 9
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“The most heavenly thing Mahler ever wrote” was Alban Berg’s verdict. “It is music coming from another world, it is coming from eternity,” said Herbert von Karajan, a work that lifts us toward “an atmosphere of utmost transfiguration,” as Bruno Walter put it. Experience Mahler’s ethereal Ninth at Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony.

Conductor Andris Nelsons has graciously agreed to replace James Levine for this performance. Maestro Levine is forced to cancel his appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra due to ill effects from a recent procedure addressing his ongoing back issues, further complicated by a viral infection.

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Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major (III. Rondo-Burleske. Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra / James Levine, Conductor
Oehms
Sunday, Apr 17, 2011 | 2 PM
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    Riccardo Muti, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • CHERUBINI Overture in G Major
  • LISZT Les préludes
  • SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
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Stalin hated Shostakovich—especially his notorious opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which the Communist government banned in 1936—but the tuneful populism of the Fifth Symphony appeased the dictator and his Soviet authorities when it premiered a year later. The Chicago Symphony and Muti close out their three-night stay at Carnegie Hall with this piece, hailed today as Shostakovich’s most popular work.
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Myung-Whun Chung
CSO Resound
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 | 8 PM
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • David Howey, Narrator
  • David Wilson-Johnson, Baritone (Tiresias)
  • Matthew Plenk, Tenor (Shepherd)
  • Men of The Philadelphia Singers Chorale
    David Hayes, Director
  • Paul Groves, Tenor (Oedipus)
  • Petra Lang, Mezzo-Soprano (Jocaste)
  • Robert Gierlach, Bass-Baritone (Creon/Messenger)
  • The Philadelphia Orchestra
    Charles Dutoit, Chief Conductor

Program

  • STRAVINSKY Apollo (Apollon musagète)
  • STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex
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Under Dutoit, The Philadelphia Orchestra is “sharp and vital” (The New York Times), qualities that serve the group well as they take on bracing music by Stravinsky. Joining them in the lead role of Oedipus Rex is tenor Paul Groves, who sings with “potent intensity” (The New York Times); Petra Lang is the “powerful” voice of Jocaste (Guardian).
Stravinsky's Apollon musagète (Naissance d'Apollon: Largo—Allegretto—Tempo I)
Montreal Sinfonietta; Charles Dutoit, Conductor
Decca

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