BSO 2016/17 Season - Concert Previews

Watch the video preview! Extended excerpts from Wagner's humane masterpiece Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg— with bass-baritone James Morris in the role of Hans Sachs, and also featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus—make up the second half of the program.

Watch the video preview! Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos opens his second BSO program of the season with the rarely heard Haydn symphony designated as “No. 1,” written about 1757. This ten-minute, three-movement work comes very early in the history of the symphony genre. By contrast, Haydn's Military Symphony dates from the zenith of the Classical symphony. Extended excerpts from Wagner's humane masterpiece Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg— with bass-baritone James Morris in the role of Hans Sachs, and also featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus—make up the second half of the program.

Watch the video preview! Spanish conductor and frequent BSO guest Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts two BSO programs this season. Gidon Kremer plays the relatively rarely heard Violin Concerto of Robert Schumann, a melodically driven, quintessentially Romantic piece written in Schumann's last productive year of 1853 for Joseph Joachim, the outstanding violinist of the age, who unfortunately never performed it.

Listen to the concert preview. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos opens his second BSO program of the season with the rarely heard Haydn symphony designated as “No. 1,” written about 1757. This ten-minute, three-movement work comes very early in the history of the symphony genre. By contrast, Haydn's Military Symphony dates from the zenith of the Classical symphony. Extended excerpts from Wagner's humane masterpiece Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg— with bass-baritone James Morris in the role of Hans Sachs, and also featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus—make up the second half of the program.

Download the program notes. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos opens his second BSO program of the season with the rarely heard Haydn symphony designated as “No. 1,” written about 1757. This ten-minute, three-movement work comes very early in the history of the symphony genre. By contrast, Haydn's Military Symphony dates from the zenith of the Classical symphony. Extended excerpts from Wagner's humane masterpiece Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg— with bass-baritone James Morris in the role of Hans Sachs, and also featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus—make up the second half of the program.

Listen to the concert preview. The internationally admired Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer joins Spanish conductor and frequent BSO guest Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos in the first of the conductor's two BSO programs this season. Kremer plays the relatively rarely heard Violin Concerto of Robert Schumann, a melodically driven, quintessentially Romantic piece written in Schumann's last productive year of 1853 for Joseph Joachim, the outstanding violinist of the age, who unfortunately never performed it.

Download the program notes. The internationally admired Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer joins Spanish conductor and frequent BSO guest Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos in the first of the conductor's two BSO programs this season. Kremer plays the relatively rarely heard Violin Concerto of Robert Schumann, a melodically driven, quintessentially Romantic piece written in Schumann's last productive year of 1853 for Joseph Joachim, the outstanding violinist of the age, who unfortunately never performed it.

Listen to the concert preview. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, masterful in any repertoire, performs the powerful Cello Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, a piece the Czech composer began during his sojourn in the United States in the mid-1890s. Making his subscription series debut leading Ma and the orchestra in this program is Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena, who led works of Berg, Strauss, and Mahler in his BSO debut at Tanglewood in July 2010.

Listen to the concert preview. Sean Newhouse, one of the BSO's two assistant conductors, returns from his 2011 debut with a wide-ranging, all-20th-century program. French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who made his BSO debut in 2002 is the first of ten pianists performing with the orchestra this season.

Listen to the concert preview. Opening Night of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2011-12 season features violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in her first BSO appearances doubling as both soloist and conductor. For this special Opening Night program, Ms. Mutter performs Mozart's Third and Fifth violin concertos—the most popular of his five works in the genre. After playing and conducting the Third and Fifth of Mozart's five violin concertos on Opening Night, Anne-Sophie Mutter completes the with Mozart's violin concertos 1, 2, and 4.

Download the program notes. Opening Night of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2011-12 season features violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in her first BSO appearances doubling as both soloist and conductor. For this special Opening Night program, Ms. Mutter performs Mozart's Third and Fifth violin concertos—the most popular of his five works in the genre. After playing and conducting the Third and Fifth of Mozart's five violin concertos on Opening Night, Anne-Sophie Mutter completes the with Mozart's violin concertos 1, 2, and 4.

Download the program notes. Sean Newhouse, one of the BSO's two assistant conductors, returns from his 2011 debut with a wide-ranging, all-20th-century program. French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who made his BSO debut in 2002 is the first of ten pianists performing with the orchestra this season.

Listen to the concert preview. For the final concerts of the 2010-2011 BSO season, Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit leads one of the great works in the French repertoire central to the Boston Symphony legacy, Hector Berlioz's "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette, based on Shakespeare's play.

Download the program notes. For the final concerts of the 2010-2011 BSO season, Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit leads one of the great works in the French repertoire central to the Boston Symphony legacy, Hector Berlioz's "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette, based on Shakespeare's play.

Listen to the concert preview. The young Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski makes his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut under the baton of frequent guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos performing Liszt's exciting Piano Concerto No. 2, an innovative, sparkling, one-movement work. 2011 marks the bicentennial of Liszt's birth. Two orchestral showpieces bookend the concerto.