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A Summer from Tanglewood
All-Mozart programThe Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra returns with a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera, The Abduction From the Seraglio. Soloists include Lisette Oropesa, Ashley Emerson, Eric Cutler, Tony Stevenson, and Morris Robinson, led by conductor Johannes Debus.
All-Brahms programThe Boston Symphony Orchestra gives an all-Brahms concert featuring Swiss-American pianist Gilles Vonsattel.
All-Strauss ProgramCellist Lynn Harrell and BSO principal viola Steven Ansell are the soloists for Don Quixote by Richard Strauss; then conductor Hans Graf presents music from his native Austria, with some of the musical gems by Johann Strauss Junior, concluding with The Radetzky March by Johann Strauss Senior. Watch the BSO perform the introduction to Also sprach Zarathustra.
Glinka, Tchaikovsky, and ProkofievCharles Dutoit leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an evening of great music from Russia: a large sample from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring Kirill Gerstein.
Berg, Strauss, and MahlerThe Boston Symphony encores one of their best programs of the previous season with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 Strauss' Four Last Songs, featuring soprano soloist Hei-Kyung Hong and Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra.
Sibelius, Elgar, and MussorgskyCharles Dutoit conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra, featuring Yo-Yo Ma on Cello.
Mendelssohn, Mozart and TchaikovskyPianist Richard Goode brings his thoughtful, nuanced approach to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat, K.449, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christoph von Dohnányi. Dohnányi also conducts Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pathetíque."
Wagner, Sibelius, Copland, and StravinskyViolinist Hillary Hahn won a Grammy award for her 2008 recording of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, a work she performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Conductor Shi-Yeon Sung. Also on the program, Sung conducts Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin, Copland’s meditative Quiet City, and the suite from Stravinsky’s The Firebird.
Arabella SteinbacherGerman violinist Arabella Steinbacher, who has impressed critics and audiences alike with a combination of limitless technique, lyrical phrasing, and an elegant, rich tone, joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61. Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi also leads the BSO in the Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88 by Antonín Dvorák.
Summer Music FestivalsIn anticipation of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music (Aug. 12–16), 99.5 All Classical’s Cathy Fuller will dip into the music of co-directors Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen, and John Harbison. She'll also feature the music of other composers in this summer’s festival, including Lukas Foss, Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, and Yehudi Wyner. The festival preview extravaganza airs Monday through Friday, Aug. 9–13 at 9am during Classical Music with Cathy Fuller. Watch Daniel Gaisford and Sean Botkin perform Lukas Foss’s “Capriccio” at the Landon Gallery in New York City.
Robles, Compañón, Luzuriaga, Frank, Golijov, Leng, and LópezMiguel Harth-Bedoya leads a musical journey through the ancient Inca empire. Breathtaking images of Machu Picchu, floating island villages, and the expanses of the Peruvian plains are matched to stirring and evocative music, from the time of the Conquistadores to the sounds of the first new classical voices of 21st-Century Latin America.
Film Night at TanglewoodOne of the season's most popular traditions, the annual Film Night concert is a celebration of music from the movies. In his 30th summer at Tanglewood, John Williams presents a memorable evening that recreates some of the great musical moments in Hollywood history.
Gershwin, Schuller, and BernsteinRobert Spano conducts an evening of jazz-inspired classical music, featuring works by Gershwin, Schuller and Bernstein. Special guests include Thomas Martin and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Mozart, Canteloube, Golijov, and RavelSoprano Dawn Upshaw lends her voice to a performace conducted Ludovic Morlot, featuring Mozart, Canteloube, Golijov and Ravel.
Higdon, Bach, Suppé, Sarasate, and BizetJoin the Boston Symphony Orchestra as Giancarlo Guerrero conducts an evening of violin music, featuring Bach's Concerto in D minor for two violins and Sarasate's Song of the Nightingale.
Bach and BeethovenKurt Masur and John Oliver conduct Bach's Jesu meine Freude and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
