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2011/12 CALENDAR
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Masterworks concerts are performed at the Forum Saturdays at 8 PM and
Sundays at 3 PM. There are seven pair of Masterworks concerts throughout the season. The Masterworks series highlights the classical sounds of the symphony like Beethoven, Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Dvorak, Holst, and many others.
MASTERWORKS
MASTERWORKS SERIES
Musicians: Todd Thiel, Fiona Thompson, Chaerim Kim-Smith, Principal Second Violinist Nicole Diaz
The season opens with a famousshowpiece by Liszt, prize-winning pianist Daria Rabotkina follows up her HSO debut last spring with Rachmaninoff’s first take on the romantic piano concerto, and Stuart Malina conducts Prokofiev’s triumphant wartime symphony.
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
The HSO presents four sonic soundscapes, including Hovhaness’s serene mountain scenes, Barber’s nostalgic reminiscences of a gentler time and place, Ravel’s exotic look eastward, and Debussy’s surging portrait of the sea.
Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Debussy: La Mer (The Sea)
The mid-winter Masterworks includes two early masterpieces by Scandinavia’s two greatest composers: Sibelius’s En Saga and Grieg’s evergreen Piano Concerto performed by Van Cliburn Competition Prize Winner, Di Wu. Stuart Malina continues his traversal of the Brahms Symphonies with No. 3.
Sibelius: En Saga
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Bela Bartók’s spicy Divertimento for String Orchestra and Robert Schumann’s heroic showpiece for the HSO’s glorious horn section set the stage for Beethoven’s iconic 5th Symphony. If you’ve never experienced the emotional and visceral impact of the Fifth performed “live,” don’t miss this opportunity.
Bartók: Divertimento
Schumann: Concert Piece for Four Horns & Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Mozart’s final symphonic masterpiece, the “Jupiter” Symphony, is coupled with Mendelssohn’s songful violin concerto as performed by the Russianborn virtuoso, Philippe Quint. Gabriel Fauré’s impressionistic Incidental Music to Pelleas & Melisande opens the program.
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
Two great 20th century story ballets – Copland’s Billy the Kid and Khachaturian’s Spartacus – will be followed by Strauss’s masterful portrait of the legendary knighterrant, Don Quixote, aptly subtitled “Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character.” HSO principal cellist Fiona Thompson “portrays” the Don.
Copland: Billy the Kid Suite
Khachaturian: Spartacus Suite No. 2
Strauss: Don Quixote
Maurice Ravel’s spectacular orchestration of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” brings the season to a rousing conclusion. The concert opens with Jonathan Leshnoff’s brilliant “Starburst” and violinist Karen Gomyo returns to perform Shostakovich’s soul-searching violin concerto.
Leshnoff: Starburst
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
