Boston Symphony Orchestra
2011-2012 Schedule of Performances
By: BSO - May 06, 2011
The Opening Night concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 season will give music fans an extraordinary opportunity to hear Anne-Sophie Mutter in a program of Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 3 and 5, when she returns to the Symphony Hall stage on Friday, September 30, to make her first BSO appearances in the dual role of conductor and soloist. Ms. Mutter, who has received wide-ranging acclaim for her recording of all five Mozart violin concertos, will complete the cycle with performances of concertos 1, 2, and 4 in a single concert that opens the BSO subscription season on October 1. Though Ms. Mutter has performed many times with the BSO since her debut in 1983, her most recent appearances took place four years ago in April 2007.
Ranging from the preeminent elder maestros of our time, to prominent masters at the top of their careers, to today’s brightest young podium talents, many of the world’s greatest conductors grace the Symphony Hall podium during the Boston Symphony’s 2011-12 season. The season also showcases several of the most compelling large-scale works ever written for orchestra, soloists, and chorus, including Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Brahms’s A German Requiem, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. A full spectrum of symphonic works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Haydn, Sibelius, Mahler, and Rachmaninoff, as well as three Strauss tone poems and four Beethoven symphonies, will also be featured. Along with appearances by many of the BSO’s most popular guest artists, including Emanuel Ax, Christine Brewer, Yefim Bronfman, Michelle DeYoung, Gidon Kremer, Garrick Ohlssohn, Yo-Yo Ma, James Morris, and Peter Serkin, 2011-12 will also introduce audiences to 13 artists making their debuts in the new season.
The 2011-12 BSO season also offers audiences the opportunity to explore an exciting and dramatic range of unfamiliar and new music encompassing works by composers from both sides of the Atlantic—Elliott Carter, Henri Dutilleux, Witold LutosÅ‚awski, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, as well as the American premiere of acclaimed British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s From the Wreckage, for trumpet and orchestra, with soloist Håkan Hardenberger. The BSO’s two-year cycle of John Harbison symphonies comes to a close with performances of the composer’s Fourth and Fifth symphonies and the world premiere performances of his Symphony No. 6, a BSO commission.
"The 2011-12 Boston Symphony season reflects the orchestra's absolute commitment to present a wide variety of thrilling music and extraordinary guest artists," said BSO Managing Director Mark Volpe. “Of course, the crucial thread throughout every performance is the Boston Symphony Orchestra, an amazing collection of virtuosic musicians who come together each week to create something far greater than the sum of its parts. We are also fortunate to have an engaged audience that shares the orchestra's passion for great music superbly performed. These are the keys to the BSO’s success over its 131-year history, and that’s what we will continue to strive for in 2011-12."
The 131st season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra takes place September 30, 2011–May 5, 2012. Subscriptions for the BSO’s 2011-2012 season are currently available by calling 888-266-7575 or visiting www.bso.org. Single tickets for the BSO’s 2011-12 season, priced from $30 to $120 (Open Rehearsals, $20), go on sale August 8. BSO concerts take place Thursday, Saturday, and Tuesday at 8 p.m. and Friday at 1:30 p.m. or 7 p.m. The BSO’s 2011-12 Opening Night concert on September 30—featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter in Mozart Concertos Nos. 3 and 5, begins at 6 p.m.; the evening begins with a pre-concert gala reception and ends with a post-concert celebratory dinner for benefactors. Regularly priced Opening Night tickets are priced from $75 to $250.
Boston Symphony Orchestra 2011-12 Season Program Listing
(All programs and artists are subject to change)
Friday, September 30, 6 p.m.
Opening Night at Symphony
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin and conductor
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K.216
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219
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Saturday, October 1, 8 p.m.
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin and conductor
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K.211
Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat, K.207
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K.218
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Thursday, October 6, 8 p.m.
Friday, October 7, 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 11, 8 p.m.
Sean Newhouse, conductor
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
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Thursday, October 13, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, October 13, 8 p.m.
Friday, October 14, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 15, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, October 18, 8 p.m.
Juanjo Mena, conductor**
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
DVO?ÁK Cello Concerto
BARTÓK The Wooden Prince
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Thursday, October 20, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, October 20, 8 p.m.
Friday, October 21, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 22, 8 p.m.
Kurt Masur, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Symphony No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 2
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Wednesday, October 26, 7:30 p.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, October 27, 8 p.m.
Friday, October 28, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 29, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, November 1, 8 p.m.
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Gidon Kremer, violin
SCHUMANN Violin Concerto
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
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Thursday, November 3, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, November 3, 8 p.m.
Friday, November 4, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 5, 8 p.m.
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
James Morris, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
HAYDN Symphony No. 1
HAYDN Symphony No. 100, Military
WAGNER Excerpts from Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg
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Thursday, November 10, 8 p.m.
Friday, November 11, 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 12, 8 p.m.
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
WEBER Overture to Der Freischütz
BARBER Piano Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique
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Thursday, November 17, 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 19, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, November 22, 8 p.m.
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Richard Goode, piano
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503
CARTER Flute Concerto
BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
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Friday, November 25, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 26, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, November 29, 8 p.m.
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
HARBISON Symphony No. 4
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
MAHLER Symphony No. 1
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Thursday, December 1, 10:30am (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, December 1
Friday, December 2, 1:30pm
Saturday, December 3
Ji?í B?lohlávek, conductor
Jonathan Biss, piano
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Gerald Finley, baritone
BEETHOVEN Grosse Fuge, for strings
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
HARBISON Symphony No. 5
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Wednesday, January 4, 7:30 p.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, January 5, 8 p.m.
Friday, January 6, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 7, 8 p.m.
Andris Nelsons, conductor**
Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet*
HAYDN Symphony No. 90
TURNAGE From the Wreckage, for trumpet
and orchestra (American premiere)
STRAUSS Thus spake Zarathustra
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Thursday, January 12, 8 p.m.
Friday, January 13, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 14, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, January 17, 8 p.m.
David Zinman, conductor
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
WEBER Overture to Euryanthe
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
HARBISON Symphony No. 6 (world premiere;
BSO commission)
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
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Thursday, January 19, 8 p.m.
Friday, January 20, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 21, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, January 24, 8 p.m.
Riccardo Chailly, conductor*
PROKOFIEV Suite from The Love of Three Oranges
DEBUSSY Khamma
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
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Thursday, January 26, 8 p.m.
Friday, January 27, 7 p.m.
Saturday, January 28, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, January 31, 8 p.m.
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Carolyn Sampson, soprano*
Camilla Tilling, soprano*
Mark Padmore, tenor*
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
MENDELSSOHN Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise)
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Thursday, February 2, 8 p.m.
Friday, February 3, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 4, 8 p.m.
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Gautier Capuçon, cello*
STRAUSS Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
DUTILLEUX Tout un monde lointain, for cello
and orchestra
DEBUSSY La Mer
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Wednesday, February 8, 8 p.m. (Tuesday series)
Thursday, February 9, 8 p.m.
Friday, February 10, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 11, 8 p.m.
Jaap van Zweden, conductor**
Emanuel Ax, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2
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Thursday, February 16, 8 p.m.
Friday, February 17, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 18, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, February 21, 8 p.m.
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor (February 21)
Peter Serkin, piano
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Winds
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
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Thursday, February 23, 8 p.m.
Friday, February 24, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 25, 8 p.m.
Kurt Masur, conductor
Christine Brewer, soprano
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Simon O’Neill, tenor*
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
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Friday, March 2, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 3, 8 p.m.
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Cédric Tiberghien, piano*
BERLIOZ Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
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Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 p.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, March 22, 8 p.m.
Friday, March 23, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.
Juraj Val?uha, conductor*
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
KODÁLY Dances of Galanta
DVO?ÁK Violin Concerto
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish
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Tuesday, March 27, 8 p.m.
Thursday, March 29, 8 p.m.
Friday, March 30, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 31, 8 p.m.
Leonidas Kavakos, violin and conductor
J.S. BACH Concerto in D minor for violin, strings, and continuo, BWV 1052
LUTOS?AWSKI Musique funèbre, for strings
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
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Thursday, April 5, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 6, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m.
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Anna Prohaska, soprano*
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
BRAHMS A German Requiem
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Thursday, April 12, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 13, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
SALONEN Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete)
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Wednesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, April 19, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 20, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 21, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, April 24, 8 p.m.
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Layla Claire, soprano
Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano
Claire Bloom, narrator**
Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
MENDELSSOHN Incidental music to A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
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Thursday, April 26, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, April 26, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 27, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 28, 8 p.m.
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Till Fellner, piano*
DEBUSSY Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
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Thursday, May 3, 8 p.m.
Friday, May 4, 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 5, 8 p.m.
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Jessica Rivera, soprano
Meredith Arwady, mezzo-soprano
Roberto Saccá, tenor*
Günther Groissböck, bass*
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
*connotes BSO debut
**connotes BSO subscription debut