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Carnegie Hall Presents

Great American Orchestras I

Series Events

Friday, Nov 12, 2010 | 8 PM
New York Philharmonic
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Midori, Violin
  • New York Philharmonic
    Alan Gilbert, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
  • JOHN ADAMS Harmonielehre

  • Encore:
  • BERNSTEIN "Lonely Town" from On the Town

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes, including one intermission
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Under Gilbert, the New York Philharmonic is giving American concert music the attention it deserves. On this concert, they perform a towering tribute to late Romanticism by John Adams. To open the program, Midori joins them in what she calls “the ultimate violin concerto.”
Beethoven Violin Concerto (II. Larghetto)
Isaac Stern, Violin / New York Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim
Sony
Saturday, Feb 5, 2011 | 8 PM
The Cleveland Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano
  • The Cleveland Orchestra
    Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser
  • SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
  • BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes, including one intermission
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Hear the thrilling precision of the orchestra in Bartók, and Welser-Möst as a skillful conductor of Wagner. A pianist—whose imagination and skill is a perfect complement—joins for Schumann’s Piano Concerto.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard will be signing CDs after this performance.
R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 (Battles Scene)
The Cleveland Orchestra / Christoph von Dohnányi, Conductor
Decca
Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 | 8 PM
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Roberto Abbado, Conductor
  • Joshua Bell, Violin

Program

  • HAYDN Symphony No. 93 in D Major
  • BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
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Whether or not you’re hearing it for the first time, there’s no one like Joshua Bell who can make you fall in love with Bruch’s beloved Romantic masterpiece of violin virtuosity. And with the Boston Symphony performing the dramatic, tumultuous—and ultimately triumphant—Beethoven Fifth, this is a night that will leave you invigorated and amazed.

Conductor Roberto Abbado 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.

Also note the newly announced program in which Joshua Bell kindly replaces pianist Maurizio Pollini, who unfortunately must cancel his appearance due to illness.

For further information, ticket holders may contact CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800.
Mozart Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” (I. Allegro vivace)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / James Levine
RCA Red Seal
Saturday, Apr 16, 2011 | 7:30 PM
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Chicago Symphony Chorus
    Duain Wolfe, Director
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    Riccardo Muti, Music Director and Conductor
  • Gérard Depardieu, Narrator
  • Kyle Ketelsen, Bass-Baritone
  • Mario Zeffiri, Tenor

Program

  • BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
  • BERLIOZ Lélio, Op. 14bis
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Celebrated actor Gerard Depardieu joins the Chicago Symphony as narrator in Lélio, the sequel to Berlioz’s hallucinatory programmatic symphony about art, love, and opium. Symphonie fantastique, with its lurid musical imagery, and the more hopeful Lélio are landmarks—one famous, the other lesser known—of French Romanticism. Together, they make a powerful pair.
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (IV. March to the Scaffold)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado, Conductor
Deutsche Grammophon
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (V. Songe d’une nuit du Sabbat)
The Philadelphia Orchestra / Riccardo Muti, Conductor
EMI Seraphim