BSO, Finlandia with Andris Nelsons, Ross Jamie Collins, & Na’Zir McFadden

Andris Nelsons and our two summer 2024 Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows share this concert of Norwegian and Finnish works. Argentine pianist Sergio Tiempo is soloist in the Norwegian Edvard Grieg’s fiery Piano Concerto, paired with the composer’s delightful&nbsp;Holberg&nbsp;Suite, based on Baroque dances. Jean Sibelius composed&nbsp;Finlandia&nbsp;pointedly to elevate Finnish national feeling, and it succeeded wonderfully, becoming one of his most popular works. His late single-movement Seventh Symphony is the ultimate expression of his personal musical language.

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Andris Nelsons & Renée Fleming

Painter Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband Alfred Stieglitz tell their love story in Kevin Puts’ poignantly romantic&nbsp;The Brightness of Light, a BSO commission composed for Renée Fleming. Wendall Harrington designed the accompanying lush projections based on images from O’Keeffe’s life and work. The program opens with two high-spirited Mozart works dating from his early Vienna years, when he was creating a new life as an independent composer.

BSO, Boston Symphony Chamber Players

BRITTEN Temporal Variations, for oboe and piano  Kevin PUTS Seven Seascapes, for flute, horn, violin, viola, cello, bass, and piano -Intermission- Traditional, Arr. Kevin SIEGFRIED Three Shaker Songs, for two sopranos (World premiere; BSO commission) COPLAND Appalachian Spring

BSO, Open Rehearsal: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki is the soloist in Mozart’s mysterious and stormy Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor which owes much to the composer’s sensitivity to operatic drama and expressivity. This concerto was particularly admired by artists of the Romantic era. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky said of his poignant Symphony No. 6,&nbsp;Pathétique, “I love it as I have never loved any of my musical children.” It was his last completed work; he led the premiere less than two weeks before his death

BSO, A Tribute to Duke Ellington with Thomas Wilkin and Renese King

The BSO and Thomas Wilkins mark the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death with three of this American musical genius’ symphonically ambitious “Tone Parallels” — his personal take on the tone poem; Gerald Clayton is soloist in the optimistic New World A-Coming. Ellington’s three Sacred Concerts of 1965, 1968, and 1973, conceived as a parallel to traditional European church music, feature styles at the core of jazz, including gospel, the blues, and spirituals in a multidimensional, oratorio-like presentation.

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BSO, Finlandia with Andris Nelsons, Ross Jamie Collins, & Na’Zir McFadden

BSO, Finlandia with Andris Nelsons, Ross Jamie Collins, & Na’Zir McFadden

Andris Nelsons & Renée Fleming

Andris Nelsons & Renée Fleming

Andris Nelsons & Renée Fleming

BSO, Boston Symphony Chamber Players

BSO, Open Rehearsal: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

BSO, Open Rehearsal: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

BSO, Open Rehearsal: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

BSO, A Tribute to Duke Ellington with Thomas Wilkin and Renese King