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Carnegie Hall Presents

Great American Orchestras II

Renowned American orchestras perform electrifying concerts under the batons of acclaimed conductors in performances of indelible music. The Chicago Symphony and Boston Symphony orchestras illuminate Wagner's operatic works, The Cleveland Orchestra pairs Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 with a work by one of the Russian masters, and Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony through Mahler's moving Ninth Symphony. 

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Thursday, Oct 4, 2012 | 8 PM
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    Riccardo Muti, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • WAGNER Overture to Der fliegende Holländer
  • MASON BATES Alternative Energy (NY Premiere)
  • FRANCK Symphony in D Minor
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Parisian audiences didn’t take to Franck’s Symphony at its 1889 premiere, but its contagious melodies and breathtaking dramatic sweep have since made it one of classical music’s most treasured works. This program also includes Wagner’s Flying Dutchman Overture and a new work by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence, Mason Bates.
Franck's Symphony in D minor, M 48, Allegro non troppo
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Monteux, Conductor
RCA Victor
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 | 8 PM
The Cleveland Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • The Cleveland Orchestra
    Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director and Conductor
  • Michael Sachs, Trumpet
  • Lyle Steelman, Trumpet

Program

  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
  • BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
  • MATTHIAS PINTSCHER Chute d’Étoiles for Two Trumpets and Orchestra
  • SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy
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The Cleveland Orchestra presents an exhilarating evening of music, beginning with two works by Beethoven: the ebullient Symphony No. 4 and an arrangement of the demanding Grosse Fuge. The performance concludes with Scriabin’s mystical Poem of Ecstasy.
Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B flat Major, Op. 60, Allegro ma non troppo
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell, Conductor
Sony Classical
Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 | 8 PM
San Francisco Symphony
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • San Francisco Symphony
    Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • MAHLER Symphony No. 9
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Michael Tilson Thomas first encountered Mahler’s music as a 13-year-old and was immediately stricken: “I could not believe that such symphonic music existed,” says Tilson Thomas. “I never got over it.” He brings a lifetime of love for Mahler’s music to bear on the Ninth Symphony—“it was the symphony that spoke to me the most,” he says—with his San Francisco Symphony in its final Carnegie Hall appearance of the season.
Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D Major, III. Rondo burleske
San Francisco Symphony | MIchael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor
San Francisco Symphony Label
Friday, Apr 5, 2013 | 8 PM
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Daniele Gatti, Conductor
  • Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-Soprano

Program

  • WAGNER Selections from Götterdämmerung
    ·· Dawn
    ·· Siegfried's Rhine Journey
    ·· Siegfried's Death and Funeral March
  • WAGNER Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
  • WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
  • WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
  • WAGNER Selections from Parsifal
    ·· "Ich sah das Kind" from Act II
    ·· Prelude to Act III
    ·· Good Friday Music
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Daniele Gatti drew praise from audience members and critics alike when he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala in 2009. They return to the Carnegie Hall stage, performing Wagner with luminous mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung—the start of a three-night stay.
Wagner's Götterdämmerung, Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey 

London Symphony Orchestra | Leopold Stokowski, Conductor

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