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Carnegie Hall Presents

International Festival of Orchestras II

Series Events

Sunday, Oct 3, 2010 | 2 PM
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
    Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor
  • Yo-Yo Ma, Cello

Program

  • BRAHMS Tragic Overture
  • SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
  • DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes, including one intermission

  • Encores:
  • BACH Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
  • BERNSTEIN Waltz from Divertimento for Orchestra
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Thirteen years after the opening chords of Brahms’s overture rang out in Vienna’s Musikverein, a Carnegie Hall audience cheered the first performance of the Czech composer Dvorák’s tribute to America. Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic breathe new life into these works, and welcome Yo-Yo Ma to perform the cello concerto that Pablo Casals called “sublime music from beginning to end.”
Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 “From the New World” (II. Largo)
Vienna Philharmonic / Lorin Maazel, Conductor
Deutsche Grammophon
Sunday, Oct 24, 2010 | 2 PM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Anastasia Kalagina, Soprano
  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 4
  • MAHLER Symphony No. 1
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Hear trumpets proclaiming a fanfare from offstage, a bass solo that parodies “Frère Jacques”—even sleigh bells. For the final concert of their Carnegie Hall Mahler showcase, Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra present two of the composer’s symphonies, both incorporating novel effects. Soprano Anastasia Kalagina joins on the fourth symphony, whose final movement is a haunting setting of a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan”Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan” (IV. Stürmisch bewegt)
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev, conductor
LSO Live
Monday, Mar 21, 2011 | 8 PM
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Soprano
  • NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
    André Previn, Principal Guest Conductor

Program

  • TORU TAKEMITSU Green
  • R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs
  • PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
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In 1944, as Soviet Russia defended itself from Nazi invasion, Prokofiev wrote his Fifth Symphony as “a hymn to free and happy Man … his pure and noble spirit.” A few years later, an elderly Strauss composed his Four Last Songs, performed here by the legendary Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Hear both of these pieces, along with music by Takemitsu that pays homage to Debussy.
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 (I. Andante)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
EMI Classics
Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 | 8 PM
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Alisa Weilerstein, Cello
  • St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
    Yuri Temirkanov, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor

Program

  • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Prelude to Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
  • SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1
  • BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

  • Encore:
  • ELGAR Nimrod From Enigma Variations, Op. 36
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Weilerstein’s “powerhouse sound is just about irresistible” (The Washington Post)—even earning her an invitation to perform at the White House. She’ll win you over on this program with a concerto Shostakovich wrote for Rostropovich, who premiered it in Leningrad in 1959.
Prokofiev March from The Love for Three Oranges Suite, Op. 33a
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra / Yuri Temirkanov, Conductor
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