Carnegie Hall Presents

Carnegie Classics

This popular series spotlights monumental works that have inspired peerless performers around the world. Osmo Vänskä leads the Minnesota Orchestra in works by Finland's greatest composer and the Vienna Philharmonic spotlights the work of composers who frequented the cultural capital where the ensemble resides. Also on the series, Dorothea Röschmann and David Daniels join The English Concert for a performance of Handel's gripping oratorio Theodora, a moral tale of sacrificial love and resistance to tyranny.

Series Events

Sunday, November 3, 2013 | 2 PM
Minnesota Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Minnesota Orchestra
    Osmo Vänskä, Music Director and Conductor
  • Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-Soprano

Program

    ALL-SIBELIUS PROGRAM
  • Pohjola's Daughter
  • Songs to be announced
  • Symphony No. 2
Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 (Finale: Allegro moderato)
Minnesota Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä, Conductor
BIS
Sunday, February 2, 2014 | 2 PM
The English Concert
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • The English Concert
    Harry Bicket, Artistic Director
  • Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano (Theodora)
  • Sarah Connolly, Mezzo-Soprano (Irene)
  • David Daniels, Countertenor (Didymus)
  • Andrew Kennedy, Tenor
  • Neal Davies, Bass-Baritone (Valens)
  • The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
    Julian Wachner, Director of Music and the Arts

Program

  • HANDEL Theodora (concert performance)
Handel's Theodora ("As with rosy steps the Morn advancing")
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Harry Bicket, Conductor | Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo-Soprano
AVIE Records
Thursday, March 13, 2014 | 8 PM
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
    Andris Nelsons, Conductor

Program

  • HAYDN Symphony No. 90 in C Major
  • BRAHMS Symphony No. 3
  • BRAHMS Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B-flat Major, Op. 56b
Brahms's Symphony No. 3 (Andante)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Leonard Bernstein, Conductor
Deutsche Grammophon

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