Carnegie Hall Presents

German Masters

Experience the power of quintessential works from some of the great German composers. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Richard Strauss's mercurial Death and Transfiguration, the San Francisco Symphony is joined by the dynamic Yuja Wang for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, and violinist Lisa Batiashvili joins Staatskapelle Dresden for an evening of Brahms. 

Series Events

Thursday, February 14, 2013 | 8 PM
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
    Mariss Jansons, Chief Conductor

Program

  • R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
  • BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7 (Edition Nowak)

R. Strauss's Death and Transfiguration

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Bernard Haitink, Conductor
Phillips
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | 8 PM
San Francisco Symphony
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • San Francisco Symphony
    Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor
  • Yuja Wang, Piano
  • Samuel Carl Adams, Electronics

Program

  • SAMUEL CARL ADAMS Drift and Providence (NY Premiere)
  • BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
  • BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
Brahms's Symphony No. 1 (Un poco Allegretto e grazioso)
New York Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein, Conductor
Sony
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | 8 PM
Staatskapelle Dresden
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Staatskapelle Dresden
    Christian Thielemann, Conductor
  • Lisa Batiashvili, Violin

Program

    ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
  • Academic Festival Overture
  • Violin Concerto
  • Symphony No. 4
Brahms's Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 77 (Allegro non troppo)
Batiashvili Staatskapelle Dresden Thielemann
Deutsche Grammophon
Brahms's Symphony No. 4 (Andante moderato) 
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell, Conductor
Sony

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