Boston Symphony Orchestra 2013-14 Season Program Listing (All programs and artists are subject to change.) *connotes BSO debut **connotes BSO subscription debut Saturday, September 21 Andris Nelsons, conductor Tuesday, September 24 Paul Lewis, piano** Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor WAGNER Siegfried Idyll Augustin Hadelich, violin** MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503 Alban Gerhardt, cello BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM _________________________ Double Concerto for violin and cello Symphony No. 2 Thursday, October 24 _________________________ Friday, October 25, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, October 26 Thursday, September 26 Daniel Harding, conductor* Friday, September 27, 1:30 p.m. Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano Saturday, September 28 Michael Schade, tenor Tuesday, October 1 TURNAGE Speranza (American premiere; Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor BSO co-commission) Camilla Tilling, soprano MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano _________________________ Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor Thursday, October 31 MAHLER Symphony No. 2, Resurrection Friday, November 1, 1:30 p.m. _________________________ Saturday, November 2 Tuesday, November 5 Thursday, October 3, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal) Charles Dutoit, conductor Thursday, October 3 Gautier Capuçon, Daniel Müller-Schott**, Friday, October 4, 1:30 p.m. and Arto Noras*, cellos Saturday, October 5 RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin Tuesday, October 8 PENDERECKI Concerto Grosso No. 1 for three cellos Stéphane Denève, conductor and orchestra Yo-Yo Ma, cello ELGAR Enigma Variations PROKOFIEV Suite from The Love of Three Oranges _________________________ SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1 STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben Thursday, November 7 _________________________ Friday, November 8 Saturday, November 9 Thursday, October 10, 10:30 a.m. (High School Open Charles Dutoit, conductor Rehearsal) Tatiana Pavlovskaya, soprano* Thursday, October 10 John Mark Ainsley, tenor Friday, October 11 Matthias Goerne, baritone** Saturday, October 12 Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Thomas Adès, conductor John Oliver, conductor MENDELSSOHN Overture, The Hebrides The American Boychoir, (Fingal’s Cave) Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, music director ADÈS Polaris BRITTEN War Requiem IVES Orchestral Set No. 2 _________________________ FRANCK Symphony (Oct. 10 and 12 only) _________________________ Thursday, November 14 Friday, November 15, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, November 16 Tuesday, November 19 Thursday, October 17, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal) Leonidas Kavakos, violin and conductor Thursday, October 17 MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K.218 Friday, October 18, 1:30 p.m. PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical Saturday, October 19 SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2 _________________________ Garrick Ohlsson, piano WAGNER Overture to Rienzi Thursday, November 21, 10:30 a.m. (High School Justin DELLO JOIO Piano Concerto (world premiere; Open Rehearsal) BSO co-commission) Thursday, November 21 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15 Friday, November 22, 1:30 p.m. _________________________ Saturday, November 23 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Thursday, January 30 Richard Svoboda, bassoon Friday, January 31, 1:30 p.m. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Saturday, February 1 NEIKRUG Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra Bernard Haitink, conductor (world premiere; BSO co-commission) Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano FALLA The Three-cornered Hat, Suites 1 and 2 Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor _________________________ ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM Alborada del gracioso Tuesday, November 26 Shéhérazade, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra Friday, November 29, 1:30 p.m. Daphnis et Chloé (complete) Saturday, November 30 _________________________ Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Peter Serkin, piano Thursday, February 6 BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 Friday, February 7, 1:30 p.m. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 Saturday, February 8 _________________________ Bernard Haitink, conductor Murray Perahia, piano Thursday, January 9 STUCKY Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Friday, January 10 after Purcell Saturday, January 11 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto Robert Spano, Conductor BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 Orquesta La Pasión, _________________________ Mikael Ringquist and Gonzalo Grau, leaders Jessica Rivera, soprano Biella da Costa, Latin-American alto* Reynaldo González-Fernández, Afro-Cuban singer and dancer Deraldo Ferreira, capoeirista and berimbau Members of the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela GOLIJOV La Pasión según San Marcos _________________________ Tuesday, January 14 Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Richard Goode, piano ALL-MOZART PROGRAM Serenade No. 6 in D for strings, K.239, Serenata notturna Piano Quartet in E-flat, K.493 Serenade No. 10 in B-flat for winds, K.361, Friday, February 14 Gran partita Saturday, February 15 Sunday, February 16, 3 p.m. (non-subscription concert) Thursday, January 16 David Newman, conductor** Friday, January 17, 1:30 p.m. BERNSTEIN West Side Story Saturday, January 18 Christoph Eschenbach, conductor and piano MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414 BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9 _________________________ Thursday, January 23 Friday, January 24, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 25 Andris Poga, conductor** Experience a thrilling new presentation of this iconic Saturday, March 15 film and winner of ten Academy Awards, including Tuesday, March 18 Best Picture. The Boston Symphony plays Leonard Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Bernstein’s electrifying score live, while the newly Yefim Bronfman, piano re-mastered film is shown on large screens in high ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM definition with the original vocals and dialogue Leonore Overture No. 2 intact. This classic romantic tragedy, directed by Piano Concerto No. 3 Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, and with lyrics by Piano Concerto No. 4 Stephen Sondheim, is one of the greatest _________________________ achievements in the history of movie musicals. It features Robbins’ breath-taking choreography and a Thursday, March 20 screenplay by Ernest Lehman based on the masterful Friday, March 21, 1:30 p.m. book by Arthur Laurents. Saturday, March 22 _________________________ Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano Thursday, February 20, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal) Guy Braunstein, violin* Thursday, February 20 Alisa Weilerstein, cello Friday, February 21, 1:30 p.m. ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM Saturday, February 22 Leonore Overture No. 3 Manfred Honeck, conductor Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor DVOŘÁK Romance for violin and orchestra _________________________ DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica Thursday, March 27, 10:30 a.m. (High School _________________________ Open Rehearsal) Thursday, March 27 Thursday, March 6 Friday, March 28, 1:30 p.m. Andris Nelsons, conductor Saturday, March 29 Cast to include Andrew Davis, conductor Gun-Brit Barkmin, soprano (Salome)* Yuja Wang, piano Jane Henschel, mezzo-soprano (Herodias) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 6 Gerhard Siegel, tenor (Herod) * PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 Evgeny Nikitin, bass-baritone (Jochanaan)** RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnol STRAUSS Salome _________________________ Concert performance in German with English Thursday, April 3 supertitles Friday, April 4, 1:30 p.m. _________________________ Saturday, April 5 Tuesday, April 8 Saturday, March 8 Robert Spano, conductor Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Biss, piano Menahem Pressler, piano DEBUSSY Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes ALL-MOZART PROGRAM RANDS Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Serenade No. 6 in D for strings, K.239, (world premiere; BSO commission) Serenata notturna RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478 _________________________ Serenade No. 10 in B-flat for winds, K.361, Gran partita _________________________ Thursday, April 10 Friday, April 11, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12 Daniele Gatti, conductor Thursday, March 13 BSO soloists Friday, March 14 Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, Yefim Bronfman, piano BWV 1046 ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms Leonore Overture No. 1 BEETHOVEN Elegiac Song, for chorus and strings Piano Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 Piano Concerto No. 2 _________________________ _________________________ Thursday, April 17, 10:30 a.m. (Open rehearsal) Thursday, April 17 _________________________ Friday, April 18 Saturday, April 19 Friday, April 25, 1:30 p.m. Lorin Maazel, conductor Saturday, April 26 (non-subscription concert) MOZART Symphony No. 38, Prague Lorin Maazel, conductor (4/17 and 19 only) Behzod Abduraimov, piano MAHLER Symphony No. 5 GLINKA Overture to Russlan and Ludmila _________________________ RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique Tuesday, April 22 Thursday, April 23 Lorin Maazel, conductor Behzod Abduraimov, piano* MUSSORGSKY Night on Bare Mountain RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 Boston Symphony Chamber Players 2013-14 Season New England Conservatory of Music’s Jordan Hall 30 Gainsborough St., Boston Sunday, October 13, 3 p.m. Sunday, February 9, 3 p.m. with Thomas Adès, piano and harpsichord with Randall Hodgkinson, piano ADÈS Sonata da caccia, for oboe, horn, and LOEFFLER Rhapsodies for oboe, viola, and piano harpsichord BEACH Quintet in F-sharp minor for piano DEBUSSY Sonata for flute, viola, and harp and strings, Op. 67 RAVEL Chansons madécasses, for voice, flute, Plus new works by cello, and piano