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Marriner Conducts Mozart and Schumann

July 19, 2015
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano

MOZART Symphony No. 35, Haffner
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
MOZART Symphony No. 36, Linz


All-Beethoven with Vadim Gluzman

July 24, 2015
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Vadim Gluzman, violin

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Symphony No. 4
Violin Concerto


All-Mozart at Tanglewood with Dohnányi

July 26, 2015
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
MOZART - Symphony No. 39
MOZART - Symphony No. 40
MOZART - Symphony No. 41, Jupiter


Opolais Sings Tchaikovsky

April 23, 2016
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Kristine Opolais, soprano
DUTILLEUX Metaboles
RACHMANINOFF Zdes’ khorosho ("How fair this place"), Op. 21, No. 7
TCHAIKOVSKY "Letter Scene" from Eugene Onegin
DEBUSSY La Mer
RAVEL La Valse


Nelsons Conducts Mahler's Ninth

April 16, 2016
Andris Nelsons, conductor
MAHLER Symphony No. 9


Nelsons Conducts Bruckner

April 9, 2016
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Malcolm Lowe, violin
Steven Ansell, viola
MOZART Sinfonia concertante in E-flat for violin
and viola, K.364
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 3 (1889 version)


Haitink Celebrates 45 Years with the BSO

April 2, 2016
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Murray Perahia, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
MAHLER Symphony No. 1


Lugansky Plays Rachmaninoff

March 26, 2016
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Betsy Burleigh, guest conductor
KANCHELI Dixi, for chorus and orchestra (American premiere)
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8


Shaham Plays a Concerto by John Williams

March 19, 2016
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
HIGDON blue cathedral
WILLIAMS Violin Concerto
SAINT-SAENS Symphony No. 3, "Organ"


Blomstedt Conducts Beethoven

March 12, 2016
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7


Perianes and the Gardens of Spain

March 5, 2016
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Javier Perianes, piano
Daniela Mack, mezzo-soprano (Concepcion)
Benjamin Hulett, tenor (Gonzalve)
Francois Piolino, tenor (Torquemada)
Jean-Luc Ballestra, baritone (Ramiro)
David Wilson-Johnson, bass-baritone (Don Inigo Gomez)

RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole
FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain
RAVEL L’Heure espagnole


"The Starry Night," in Sound

February 27, 2016
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Paul Groves, tenor
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductor
Voices Boston, Steven Lipsitt, conductor

BERLIOZ Resurrexit
DUTILLEUX Timbres, espace, mouvement
BERLIOZ Te Deum


Ibragimova's BSO Debut

February 20, 2016
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Alina Ibragimova, violin

HAYDN Symphony No. 26, Lamentatione
HARTMANN Concerto funebre, for violin and strings
HAYDN Violin Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2


A World Premiere to Celebrate Shakespeare

February 13, 2016
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Robert Sheena, English horn
STRAUSS Macbeth, Op. 23
DVORAK Othello Overture, Op. 93
TSONTAKIS Sonnets (world premiere; BSO commission)
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy after Shakespeare


Hannigan Sings let me tell you

February 6, 2016
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Barbara Hannigan, soprano

SHOSTAKOVICH Excerpts from the incidental music to Hamlet, Op. 32a
ABRAHAMSEN let me tell you
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64


Nelsons Conducts A Midsummer Night's Dream

January 30, 2016
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano
Karen McDonald (Titania)
Carson Elrod (Puck; Mendelssohn)
Antonio Weissinger (Boy; Young Mendelssohn)
Will Lyman (Oberon)
Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus

WEBER Overture to Oberon
HENZE Symphony No. 8
MENDELSSOHN Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream


French Songs, Ancient and Modern, with Renée Fleming

January 16, 2016
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
Reneé Fleming, soprano
DEBUSSY Jeux
DUTILLEUX Le Temps l’Horloge
CANTELOUBE from Songs of the Auvergne: Brezairola; Bailero; Malurous qu'o uno fenno
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1911 version)


Roth Conducts the "Eroica"

January 9, 2016
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
Jessica Zhou, harp
GOSSEC Symphonie à 17 parties
MOZART Concerto in C for Flute and Harp, K.299
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"


Bronfman Plays Bartók

November 28, 2015
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano

HAYDN Symphony No. 30, "Alleluja"
BARTOK Piano Concerto No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1, "Winter Daydreams"


Nelsons Conducts Shostakovich's Fifth

November 21, 2015
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Isabelle Faust, violin
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
J.S. BACH Komm, Jesu, komm!, BWV 229
J.S. BACH Es ist genug, from Cantata No. 60
BERG Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5


Dvorák's Serenades

October 24, 2015
Strings and Winds of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
ALL-DVORAK PROGRAM
Serenade for Winds
Nocturne, for strings
Serenade for Strings


Goerke Sings Elektra

October 17, 2015
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Christine Goerke, soprano (Elektra)
Gun-Brit Barkmin, soprano (Chrysothemis)
Jane Henschel, mezzo-soprano (Klytämnestra)
Gerhard Siegel, tenor (Aegisth)
James Rutherford, baritone (Orest)
Elizabeth Byrne, soprano (Confidante)
Nadine Secunde, soprano (Overseer)
Meredith Hansen, soprano (Trainbearer)
Nadezhda Serdyuk, Claudia Huckle, Mary Phillips,
Sandra Lopez, and Rebecca Nash (Maids)
Mark Schowalter, tenor (Young Servant)
Kevin Langan, bass (Orest’s Guardian and Old Servant)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Bagwell, guest chorus conductor
STRAUSS Elektra, Op. 58


Helmchen's Symphony Hall Debut

November 14, 2015
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Martin Helmchen, piano
NEUBURGER Aube ("Dawn") (world premiere; BSO commission)
BARTOK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"


Lars Vogt Plays Beethoven

October 10, 2015
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Lars Vogt, piano
CURRIER Divisions (BSO co-commission)
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2


Andris Nelsons in the BSO's 2015-2016 Opening Concert

October 3, 2015
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Evgeny Kissin, piano
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances


Tetzlaff Plays Mendelssohn

August 14, 2015

Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Andris Nelsons, conductor

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
MAHLER Symphony No. 6