Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (Seating Chart)
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8 PM

Program

Program Notes

“They produced extraordinary beauty.”—New York Sun

“A force to be reckoned with” (New York Times), the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performs the US premiere of Widmann’s invigorating concert overture Con brio (“with spirit”), a short orchestral tribute to Beethoven’s Seventh and Eighth symphonies. Emanuel Ax joins the BRSO for Mozart’s grand C-major piano concerto, one of Beethoven’s favorites because of its heroic themes. Tchaikovsky described his Fourth Symphony, finished in the aftermath of his collapsed marriage, as “an echo of your most intimate thoughts and emotions”—and even claimed that its first movement represents fate.

Program Details

Pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 PM in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage with Marilyn McCoy, Visiting Professor of Music, Clark University.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, Chief Conductor
Emanuel Ax, Piano

JÖRG WIDMANN	Con brio (US Premiere)
MOZART	Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503
TCHAIKOVSKY	Symphony No. 4
Encores:
SCHUBERT	Impromptu in A-flat Major, D. 935, No. 2
HAYDN	String Quartet in F Major, Op. 3, No. 5, "Serenade" (String Orchestra version, arr. Haydn)
TCHAIKOVSKY	Czardas from Swan Lake