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Carnegie Hall Presents

International Festival of Orchestras I

Series Events

Thursday, Sep 30, 2010 | 8 PM
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor

Program

  • SMETANA Má Vlast

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 30 minutes, including one intermission
Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor (IV. Finale: Feierlich, nicht schnell)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor
Deutsche Grammophon
Sunday, Oct 17, 2010 | 2 PM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 6

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 20 minutes, and will be performed without intermission.
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Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra play with a “wonderful wildness” (The New Yorker) that’s perfect for the twists and turns of Mahler’s mercurial Sixth. From the imperious march music that opens the symphony, to the moments of pastoral repose (complete with cowbells) and sentimental passages overflowing with joy, this orchestra makes the most of the tumult Mahler created.
Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor, “Tragic” (I. Allegro energico, ma non troppo)
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, Conductor
LSO Live
Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 | 8 PM
Saito Kinen Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Kifu Mitsuhashi, Shakuhachi
  • Saito Kinen Orchestra
    Seiji Ozawa, Music Director and Conductor
  • Tatsuya Shimono, Conductor
  • Yukio Tanaka, Biwa

Program

  • TORU TAKEMITSU November Steps for Biwa, Shakuhachi, and Orchestra
  • BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, including one intermission
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In 1991, the Saito Kinen Orchestra made its US debut—opening the Carnegie Hall season, no less. The New York Times raved: “It quickly showed itself to be a superbly polished group that played a program of Western core classics with genuine passion.” Experience the orchestra’s world-class mastery of classical-music repertoire again with Berlioz’s whirlwind of phantasmagoric Romantic-era passion.

Please note that Mr. Shimono has kindly agreed to conduct the Takemitsu work.
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op.14 (IV. Marche au supplice. Allegretto non troppo)
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
Deutsche Grammophon Galleria
Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011 | 8 PM
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Nikolai Lugansky, Piano
  • St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
    Yuri Temirkanov, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor

Program

  • LIADOV Kikimora, Op. 63
  • RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2
  • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

  • Encores:
  • RACHMANINOFF Prelude in G-sharp Minor, Op. 32, No. 12
  • ELGAR Salut d'amour, Op. 12
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It’s a uniquely Russian program with an orchestra that “sounds like no other” (The New York Times). It includes Rimsky-Korsakov and his colorful musical recounting of Arabian Nights—a work that set the standard for Russian music for a hundred years after it was composed—and Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto.
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op. 35 (IV. Festival At Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman.)
New York Philharmonic / Yuri Temirkanov, Conductor
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