27 Season 2013-2014 Thursday, November 14, at 8:00 The Philadelphia Orchestra Friday, November 15, at 2:00 Saturday, November 16, Manfred Honeck Conductor at 8:00 Christian Tetzlaff Violin Strauss Overture to Die Fledermaus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 I. Allegro aperto II. Adagio III. Rondeau: Tempo di menuetto Intermission Dvorˇák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (“From the New World”) I. Adagio—Allegro molto II. Largo III. Scherzo: Molto vivace IV. Allegro con fuoco—Meno mosso e maestoso— Un poco meno mosso—Allegro con fuoco This program runs approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes. Philadelphia Orchestra concerts are broadcast on WRTI 90.1 FM on Sunday afternoons at 1 PM. Visit www.wrti.org to listen live or for more details. 228 Story Title The Philadelphia Orchestra Jessica Griffin The Philadelphia Orchestra community itself. His concerts to perform in China, in 1973 is one of the preeminent of diverse repertoire attract at the request of President orchestras in the world, sold-out houses, and he has Nixon, today The Philadelphia renowned for its distinctive established a regular forum Orchestra boasts a new sound, desired for its for connecting with concert- partnership with the National keen ability to capture the goers through Post-Concert Centre for the Performing hearts and imaginations of Conversations. Arts in Beijing. The Orchestra audiences, and admired for annually performs at Under Yannick’s leadership a legacy of innovation in Carnegie Hall while also the Orchestra returns to music-making. The Orchestra enjoying annual residencies in recording with a newly- is inspiring the future and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and at released CD on the Deutsche transforming its rich tradition the Bravo! Vail festival. Grammophon label of of achievement, sustaining Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Musician-led initiatives, the highest level of artistic and Leopold Stokowski including highly-successful quality, but also challenging transcriptions. In Yannick’s Cello and Violin Play-Ins, and exceeding that level, by inaugural season the shine a spotlight on the creating powerful musical Orchestra has also returned Orchestra’s musicians, as experiences for audiences at to the radio airwaves, with they spread out from the home and around the world. weekly Sunday afternoon stage into the community. Music Director Yannick broadcasts on WRTI-FM. The Orchestra’s commitment Nézet-Séguin triumphantly to its education and Philadelphia is home and opened his inaugural community partnership the Orchestra nurtures an season as the eighth artistic initiatives manifests itself important relationship not leader of the Orchestra in numerous other ways, only with patrons who support in fall 2012. His highly including concerts for families the main season at the collaborative style, deeply- and students, and eZseatU, Kimmel Center but also those rooted musical curiosity, a program that allows full- who enjoy the Orchestra’s and boundless enthusiasm, time college students to other area performances paired with a fresh approach attend an unlimited number at the Mann Center, Penn’s to orchestral programming, of Orchestra concerts for Landing, and other venues. have been heralded by a $25 annual membership The Orchestra is also a global critics and audiences alike. fee. For more information on ambassador for Philadelphia Yannick has been embraced The Philadelphia Orchestra, and for the U.S. Having been by the musicians of the please visit www.philorch.org. the first American orchestra Orchestra, audiences, and the 8 Music Director Nigel Parry/CPi Yannick Nézet-Séguin triumphantly opened his inaugural season as the eighth music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra in the fall of 2012. His highly collaborative style, deeply-rooted musical curiosity, and boundless enthusiasm, paired with a fresh approach to orchestral programming, have been heralded by critics and audiences alike. The New York Times has called Yannick “phenomenal,” adding that under his baton “the ensemble … has never sounded better.” In his first season he took the Orchestra to new musical heights. His second builds on that momentum with highlights that include a Philadelphia Commissions Micro-Festival, for which three leading composers have been commissioned to write solo works for three of the Orchestra’s principal players; the next installment in his multi-season focus on requiems with Fauré’s Requiem; and a unique, theatrically-staged presentation of Strauss’s revolutionary opera Salome, a first-ever co-production with Opera Philadelphia. Yannick has established himself as a musical leader of the highest caliber and one of the most exciting talents of his generation. Since 2008 he has been music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic, and since 2000 artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain. In addition he becomes the first ever mentor conductor of the Curtis Institute of Music’s conducting fellows program in the fall of 2013. He has made wildly successful appearances with the world’s most revered ensembles, and has conducted critically acclaimed performances at many of the leading opera houses. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Deutsche Grammophon (DG) enjoy a long-term collaboration. Under his leadership the Orchestra returns to recording with a newly-released CD on that label of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Leopold Stokowski transcriptions. Yannick continues a fruitful recording relationship with the Rotterdam Philharmonic for DG, BIS, and EMI/Virgin; the London Philharmonic for the LPO label; and the Orchestre Métropolitain for ATMA Classique. A native of Montreal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin studied at that city’s Conservatory of Music and continued lessons with renowned conductor Carlo Maria Giulini and with Joseph Flummerfelt at Westminster Choir College. Among Yannick’s honors are an appointment as Companion of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors; a Royal Philharmonic Society Award; Canada’s National Arts Centre Award; the Prix Denise- Pelletier, the highest distinction for the arts in Quebec, awarded by the Quebec government; and an honorary doctorate by the University of Quebec in Montreal. To read Yannick’s full bio, please visit www.philorch.org/conductor. 29 Conductor Felix Broede Felix Manfred Honeck has served as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2008 and has twice extended his contract, which now runs until the end of the 2019-20 season. He has served as music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony in Stockholm (2000- 06) and the Staatsoper Stuttgart (2007-11), and as principal guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic (2008-11), a position he resumes this season for another three years. As a guest conductor he has worked with leading international orchestras including the London and Bavarian Radio symphonies; the Deutsches Symphonie- Orchester Berlin; the Royal Concertgebouw and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras; the Dresden Staatskapelle; the Orchestre de Paris; the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome; and the Vienna Philharmonic. In the U.S. he has conducted the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics; the Chicago and Boston symphonies; and the Cleveland Orchestra. These current concerts mark his Philadelphia Orchestra debut. Other highlights of Mr. Honeck’s 2013-14 season include return engagements in Bamberg, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Rome. In February 2013 he made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, which resulted in a recording with violinst Anne-Sophie Mutter of works by Dvorˇák for Deutsche Grammophon. With the Pittsburgh Symphony he has recorded Mahler’s Symphony Nos. 1, 3, 4, and 5; Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5; and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben for the Japanese label Exton. Mr. Honeck and the Symphony have also undertaken regular successful tours, mostly recently performing in Grafenegg, Berlin, Bucharest, Paris, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Lucerne, and Bonn. Born in Austria, Mr. Honeck received his musical training at the Academy of Music in Vienna. Many years of experience as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, and at the helm of the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra, have given his conducting a distinctive stamp. He began his career as assistant to Claudio Abbado in Vienna and was subsequently engaged by the Zurich Opera House, where he was bestowed the prestigious European Conductor’s Award in 1993. He has also been artistic director of the International Wolfegg Concerts in Germany for more than 15 years. 30 Soloist Giorgia Bertazzi Violinist Christian Tetzlaff made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 1993 and is making his sixth subscription appearance with the ensemble at these concerts. In demand as a soloist with most of the world’s leading orchestras, he has also appeared with the Vienna, Berlin, Rotterdam, New York, and Los Angeles philharmonics; the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Toronto, London, and Bavarian Radio symphonies; and the Cleveland and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras. In addition to these current performances, highlights of Mr. Tetzlaff’s 2013-14 season include return visits to the Vienna and Munich philharmonics; tours with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra under Andris Nelsons; recitals with pianist Lars Vogt in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Quebec City, and at the Schubert Club in St. Paul; and two appearances at Carnegie Hall. Born in Hamburg in 1966, Mr. Tetzlaff began playing the violin and piano at the age of six but did not begin intensive study of the violin until making his concert debut playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto at the age of 14. Since then he has performed and recorded a broad spectrum of the repertoire, ranging from Bach’s unaccompanied sonatas and 19th-century masterworks by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Brahms to 20th-century concertos by Bartók, Berg, and Shostakovich and world premieres of contemporary works. A dedicated chamber musician, Mr. Tetzlaff frequently collaborates with other artists, including the Tetzlaff Quartet, which he founded in 1994 with violinist Elisabeth Kufferath, violist Hanna Weinmeister, and his sister, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff.