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Friday, Dec 3, 2010 | 8 PM
Risør Chamber Music Festival
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Henning Kraggerud, Violin
  • Lars Anders Tomter, Viola
  • Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano
  • Marc-André Hamelin, Piano
  • Martin Fröst, Clarinet
  • Measha Brueggergosman, Soprano
  • Risør Festival Strings
  • Torleif Thedéen, Cello

Program

  • R. STRAUSS Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
  • MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major, K. 449
  • MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg)
  • COPLAND Clarinet Concerto
  • BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings

  • Encores:
  • TRAD. Let’s Be Happy (arr. Göran Fröst)
  • SCHUMANN Abendlied Op.107, No.6 (arr. Johan Svendsen)

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes, including one intermission
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This diverse program showcases the variety for which the Risør festival is known. Fröst shines in the piece that Benny Goodman commissioned from Copland and premiered at Carnegie Hall. Brueggergosman sings Mahler’s song cycle in a 1920 arrangement that Schoenberg made for his private music society in Vienna. And Andsnes, one of the festival’s artistic directors, and the Risør Festival Strings demonstrate their skill in music by R. Strauss, Mozart, and Bartók.
Bartók Divertimento (1939) Sz. 113 (I. Allegro non troppo)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Mariner, Conductor
London Decca
Saturday, Mar 5, 2011 | 8 PM
St. Louis Symphony
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Leila Josefowicz, Violin
  • St. Louis Symphony
    David Robertson, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  • THOMAS ADÈS Violin Concerto, “Concentric Paths"
  • TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
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In 1889, Tchaikovsky expressed a desire to end his career with a major symphony that he could dedicate to the Czar. He wrote this work—his “Pathétique” Symphony—in 1893 and premiered it only days before he died. On this program, Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony perform the valedictory Sixth, along with a violin concerto by former Carnegie Hall composer-in-residence Thomas Adès and music by Vaughan Williams.
Adès Violin Concerto (I. Rings)
Anthony Marwood, Violin / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Thomas Adès
EMI
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin, Conductor   
Teldec
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

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