SATURDAY 02.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CHOIR OF THE “GEORGE ENESCU” PHILHARMONIC ROMANIAN RADIO CHILDREN’S CHOIR Conductor: VLADIMIR JUROWSKI Conductor of the Choir: ION IOSIF PRUNNER Conductor of the Children’s Choir: VOICU POPESCU Multimedia Director: CARMEN LIDIA VIDU Assistant conductor: TIBERIU SOARE Programme: Enescu – “Œdipe” “What I can certainly say is that, out of all my compositions, Œdipe is my dearest one.”- George Enescu Soloists: Œdipe – PAUL GAY (baritone) Tirésias – Sir WILLARD WHITE (bass-baritone) Créon – CHRISTOPHER PURVES (baritone) Shephard – GRAHAM CLARK (tenor) High Priest – MISCHA SCHELOMIANSKI (bass) Phorbas – IN SUNG SIM (bass) Watchman/Old man – MAXIM MIKHAILOV (bass) Theseus – BORIS PINKHASOVICH (baritone) Laius – MARIUS VLAD BUDOIU (tenor) Jocasta – RUXANDRA DONOSE (mezzosoprano) The Sphinx – ILDIKÓ KOMLÓSI (mezzosoprano) Antigone – GABRIELA IŞTOC (soprano) Mérope – Dame FELICITY PALMER (mezzosoprano) SUNDAY 03.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conductor: VLADIMIR JUROWSKI Soloist: CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF – violin Programme: Wagner – “Tristan und Isolde”. Prelude to Act 3 Berg – Concerto for violin and orchestra (1935) Shostakovich – Symphony No.11 in G minor Opus. 103 (1905) MONDAY 04.09 Time 20.00 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall RUSSIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA RADIO ACADEMIC CHOIR Conductor: MIKHAIL PLETNEV Conductor of the choir: CIPRIAN ȚUȚU Soloist: NIKOLAI LUGANSKY – piano Programme: Enescu – “Isis” Poem (1923, orchestrated by Pascal Bentoiu, according to the composer's sketches) “The Isis poem is a mysterious work, impregnated with Œdipe effluvia, as well as an unmistakeable Tristanesque air, and – while it is no “music portrait” – it probably contains a tribute […] of the author to the person he loved most in this lifetime.” (Pascal Bentoiu, Breviar enescian) Prokofiev – Concerto no. 3 for piano and orchestra in C major op. 26 Prokofiev – Symphony no. 6 in e-flat minor op. 111 TUESDAY 05.09 Time 20.00 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall RUSSIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA Conductor: HORIA ANDREESCU Soloist: VADIM REPIN – violin Programme: Ginastera – “Estancia” Suite. Four dances op. 8a (1941) Enescu – “Aria and Scherzino” for violin and orchestra (1908-1909) Aria and Scherzino were printed for the first time in 2005, at the initiative of Sherban Lupu, a Romanian violinist living in the United States of America. The six notebooks edited with this occasion contain works from the composer’s youth, the manuscripts of which can be found in the archives of the “George Enescu” Museum in Bucharest. Sir James MacMillan – Concerto for violin and orchestra (2009) (first Romanian audition) Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 5 in e minor op. 64 (1888) WEDNESDAY 06.09 Time 20.00 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall ROMANIAN NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA CHOIR OF THE “GEORGE ENESCU” PHILHARMONIC Conductor: DOMINGO HINDOYAN Conductor of the Choir: ION IOSIF PRUNNER Programme: Beethoven – Concerto no. 1 for piano and orchestra in C major op. 15 Soloist: SERGIO TIEMPO – piano Beethoven – Symphony no. 9 in d minor op. 125 Soloists: ANNA SAMUIL (soprano) ROXANA CONSTANTINESCU (mezzosoprano) STEFAN VINKE (tenor) DANIEL BOAZ (baritone) THURSDAY 07.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor: MANFRED HONECK Soloist: MATTHIAS GOERNE (baritone) Programme: Dvořák – Rusalka-Fantasie (arranged by Manfred Honeck/Thomas Ille) Mahler – Poems from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” (The Youth's Magic Horn) (Rheinlegendchen, Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, Das irdische Leben, Urlicht, Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt, Revelge, Der Tambourgsell) Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 6 in b minor op. 74 “Pathétique” FRIDAY 08.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor: MANFRED HONECK Soloist: ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER – violin Programme: Enescu – Concert Overture on Popular Romanian Themes in A major op. 32 (1948) “Between the two sound phrases that mark the beginning and the end of George Enescu’s Concert Overture op. 32, […] a strange, complex and equally paradoxical sonorous world is born, transformed and placed on the road to eternity.” (Constantin Secară, in the study “George Enescu’s Concert Overture op. 32, from the Romanian Traditional Character to the Synthesis of Enescu’s Musical Language”) Dvořák – Concerto for violin and orchestra in a minor op. 53 Mahler – Symphony no. 1 in D major SATURDAY 09.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER Conductor: VALERY GERGIEV Soloist: DANIIL TRIFONOV – piano Programme: Rachmaninoff – Concerto no. 2 for piano and orchestra in c minor op. 18 Bruckner – Symphony no. 4 in E-flat major “Romantic” (WAB 104) SUNDAY 10.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER Conductor: VALERY GERGIEV Soloist: ANDREI IONIȚĂ – cello (Winner of the Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition, 2015) Programme: Enescu – Symphony no. 1 in E-flat major op. 13 (1905) “The Symphony in E-flat major is a huge shout of joy, not being in the least a childish work. […] It is a continuous aspiration to an ideal of beauty, light and truth, almost a sort of metaphysical patience.” (Pascal Bentoiu, Capodopere enesciene) Saint-Saëns – Concerto no. 1 for cello and orchestra in a minor op. 33 Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphonic Suite "Scheherazade" op. 35 MONDAY 11.09 Time 20.00 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LONDON Conductor: CHARLES DUTOIT Soloist: FRANK PETER ZIMMERMANN – violin Programme: Ravel – “Pavane pour une infante défunte” (1910) Beethoven – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op. 61 Stravinsky – "Petrushka". Ballet burlesque in four scenes: The Shrovetide Fair, Petrushka’s Room, The Moor’s Room, The Shrovetide Fair (Toward Evening) (1911 version) TUESDAY 12.09 Time 20.00 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LONDON Conductor: CHARLES DUTOIT Soloist: MARTHA ARGERICH – piano Programme: Enescu – Romanian Rhapsody no. 1 in A major op. 11 “With the exuberance of its dancing rhythms and the brilliant colours of the orchestra, it is clearly the musical image of a folk party.” (Zeno Vancea, “Romanian folk intonations in George Enescu’s music”, in the magazine Muzica) Ravel – Piano Concerto in G major Debussy – "La Mer" (De l’aube à midi sur la mer, Le Jeu des vagues, Le Dialogue du vent et de la mer) Ravel – Bolero WEDNESDAY 13.09 Time 20.00 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall RADIO NATIONAL ORCHESTRA RADIO ACADEMIC CHOIR Conductor: LAWRENCE FOSTER Conductor of the Choir: CIPRIAN ȚUȚU Multimedia director: CARMEN LIDIA VIDU Programme: Hindemith – Opera "Mathis der Maler" Soloists: Albrecht von Brandenburg – TORSTEN KERL (tenor) Countess Helfenstein – STELLA GRIGORIAN (contralto) Hans Schwalb – NORBERT ERNST (tenor) Regina – KATERINA TRETYAKOVA (soprano) Lorenz von Pommersfelden – MARTIN SNELL (bass) Riedinger – FALK STRUCKMANN (bass-baritone) Ursula – BRIGITTE PINTER (soprano) Mathis – LESTER LYNCH (baritone) Sylvester von Schaumberg – COSMIN IFRIM (tenor) Truchsess von Waldburg, army general – ALIN ANCA (bass) Wolfgang Capito – PETER GALLIARD (tenor) THURSDAY 14.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA Conductor: RICCARDO CHAILLY Soloist: DAVID GARRETT – violin Programme: Tchaikovsky – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op. 35 Shostakovich – Symphony no. 12 in d minor op. 112 “The Year 1917” FRIDAY 15.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA Conductor: RICCARDO CHAILLY Soloist: JULIAN RACHLIN – viola Programme: Enescu – Rhapsody no. 2 in D major op.11 (1902) “The Second Rhapsody reveals itself to us as a historical fresco from our troubled past.” (Zeno Vancea, “Romanian folk intonations in George Enescu’s music”, in the magazine Muzica) Bartók – Concerto for viola and orchestra SZ 120/BB 128 Respighi – “Fontane di Roma” (La fontana di Valle Giulia, La Fontana del Tritone al mattino, La fontana di Trevi, La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto) Respighi – “Pini di Roma” (I pini di Villa Borghese, Pini presso una catacomba, I pini del Gianicolo, I pini della Via Appia) SATURDAY 16.09 Time 20.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conductor: ZUBIN MEHTA Soloist: KHATIA BUNIATISHVILLI – piano Programme: Schumann – Concerto for piano and orchestra in a minor op. 54 Strauss – “Sinfonia Domestica” op. 53 SUNDAY 17.09 Time 19.30 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conductor: ZUBIN MEHTA Soloist: LEONIDAS KAVAKOS – violin Programme: Enescu – "Voix de la nature" “Imagine a stormy sea. A motionless sailor contemplates it, his eyes glued to the horizon. The wind is roaring, blowing up, turning to squall. A siren howls in the distance [...]”. (George Enescu, in “Memories of George Enescu”, compiled by Bernard Gavoty) Brahms – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op. 77 Schubert – Symphony no. 9 in C major D 944 “The Grand Symphony” MONDAY 18.09 Time 20.00 GREAT ORCHESTRAS SERIES Grand Palace Hall ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE Conductor: CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH Soloist: THOMAS HAMPSON (baritone) Programme: Mahler – “Rückert Lieder” “Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!” (Do not look at my songs!) “Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft” (I breathed a gentle fragrance) “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (I am lost to the world) “Um Mitternacht”