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Carnegie Hall Presents

International Festival of Orchestras I

Discover outstanding orchestras that are steeped in tradition, yet continue to challenge the way audiences listen to music today. The Mariinsky, Royal Concertgebouw, and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras have all cultivated classical music for more than two centuries, while the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is forging new pathways to peace with its fearless group of superb Arab and Israeli musicians dedicated to making great music in the face of conflict. 

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Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 | 7:30 PM
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Mariinsky Orchestra
    Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • SHCHEDRIN RODION SHCHEDRIN The Little Hunchbacked Horse Suite
    ·· Introduction
    ·· Gypsy Dance
    ·· Duettino of Ivan and Tsar-girl
    ·· Girls’ round-dance and quadrille
  • SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 6
  • R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
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Over the last few seasons, the Mariinsky Orchestra has given Carnegie Hall audiences one-of-a-kind Mahler, dramatic Berlioz, and a memorable account of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies. On this program, the orchestra and Valery Gergiev perform Strauss’s tone poem about an artist-hero who celebrates triumphs, battles enemies, and woos a gentle lover; and Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony, which veers from elegiacally touching to absurdly bitter.
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6 (Presto)
Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
Chandos
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 | 8 PM
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
  • Daniel Barenboim, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
  • BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
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Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony begins with some of the most memorable and awe-inspiring notes in music history. It’s bold music, perfect for this fearless group of young Arab and Israeli musicians dedicated to making great music in the face of conflict. The sprightly First and the Eighth complete the concert—the first night of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra's complete Beethoven symphony cycle.
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 (Allegro con brio)
West Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim, Music Director and Conductor
Warner Classics
Thursday, Feb 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
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This concert features two remarkable works of late Romanticism, performed by Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Strauss’s mercurial musical meditation on death, and Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony—a towering work that was the composer’s springboard to international success.
R. Strauss's Death and Transfiguration
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Bernard Haitink, Conductor
Phillips
Friday, Mar 1, 2013 | 8 PM
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
    Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor
  • Herbert Lippert, Tenor

Program

  • SUPPÉ Poet and Peasant Overture
  • R. STRAUSS Lieder
  • DVORÁK Symphony No. 7
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Dvořák intended his Seventh Symphony to be a truly moving statement; as he put it, the work “must be capable of stirring the world.” This tragically beautiful work marks the finale of a concert by the incomparable Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst that also includes, as a lighthearted contrast, an operetta overture by Suppé and lieder by Richard Strauss with tenor Herbert Lippert.
Dvořák's Symphony No. 7 (Scherzo vivace)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Lorin Maazel, Conductor
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