BSO 2016/17 Season - Concert Previews

The Boston Symphony Orchestra presents Project Beethoven, a unique fashion contest featuring fashion inspired by the music of Ludwig von Beethoven, scheduled in conjunction with upcoming BSO concerts featuring Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, on February 3 at Symphony Hall.

Video Commentary by Harlow Robinson on Prokofiev's sixth Symphony. Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6 will be performed by the Boston Symphony under Sakari Oramo February 3-8 at Symphony Hall.

Assistant Artistic Administrator Ben Schwartz sits down with Christoph von Dohnányi to talk about this week's upcoming BSO concerts featuring Ligeti's 1972 Double Concerto, Dvořák's Symphony No. 7, and Mozart's Violin concerto no. 4 featuring violinist Arabella Steinbacher.

Listen to the concert preview. In these concerts led by the great German conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi, BSO principal players Elizabeth Rowe, flute, and John Ferrillo, oboe, step to the front of the orchestra to perform Ligeti's 1972 Double Concerto. Making her BSO subscription series debut, the young German violinist Arabella Steinbacher is soloist in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4. Antonín Dvorak wrote his powerful yet elegant Symphony No. 7 for London's Royal Philharmonic Society.

Watch the Life and Context of Prokofiev with commentary by Harlow Robinson. Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6 will be performed by the Boston Symphony under Sakari Oramo February 3-8 at Symphony Hall.

Download the Program Notes. In these concerts led by the great German conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi, BSO principal players Elizabeth Rowe, flute, and John Ferrillo, oboe, step to the front of the orchestra to perform Ligeti's 1972 Double Concerto. Making her BSO subscription series debut, the young German violinist Arabella Steinbacher is soloist in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4. Antonín Dvorak wrote his powerful yet elegant Symphony No. 7 for London's Royal Philharmonic Society.

WGBH's Brian Bell interviews Lorin Maazel for his upcoming concerts here at Symphony Hall.

Download the Program Notes. The illustrious American conductor Lorin Maazel brings a program anchored by Alexander Scriabin's lushly exotic "Poem of Ecstasy", which features kaleidoscopic orchestral effects including a major role for the Symphony Hall organ. Equally exotic but on a smaller scale is a 1917 Stravinsky work, "The Song of the Nightingale".

Listen to the concert preview! The illustrious American conductor Lorin Maazel brings a program anchored by Alexander Scriabin's lushly exotic "Poem of Ecstasy", which features kaleidoscopic orchestral effects including a major role for the Symphony Hall organ. Equally exotic but on a smaller scale is a 1917 Stravinsky work, "The Song of the Nightingale".

BSO Assistant Artistic Administrator Benjamin Schwartz interviews conductor Lorin Maazel.

WGBH's Brian Bell sits down with Sir Mark Elder and talks about the upcoming concerts with Lars Vogt.

Watch the UnderScore Fridays Video featuring Robert Kirzinger. UnderScore Fridays, a new 3-concert subscription series, offers concertgoers a chance to hear directly from the conductor about each program and a complimentary post-concert subscriber reception.

Listen to the Concert Preview! The English conductor Sir Mark Elder returns to the BSO podium for an eclectic program centering on Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 to be played by the outstanding German pianist Lars Vogt. These concerts begin with a selection of the contemporary English composer Colin Matthews's orchestrations of Claude Debussy's piano Preludes.

Download the Program Notes. The English conductor Sir Mark Elder returns to the BSO podium for an eclectic program centering on Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 to be played by the outstanding German pianist Lars Vogt. These concerts begin with a selection of the contemporary English composer Colin Matthews's orchestrations of Claude Debussy's piano Preludes.

Download the Program Notes. This unique program, led by James Levine and featuring casts of internationally acclaimed vocalists, presents two short 20th-century operatic masterworks in concert performances. Stravinsky wrote his Latin-language "opera-oratorio" Oedipus Rex in collaboration with the French multi-talented playwright and artist Jean Cocteau. Their choice of Latin for this austere masterpiece lends the familiar story a sense of ritual. Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle", one of a trio of stage works defining the composer's lush, brilliant, and exotic music of the 1910s, is based on Charles Perrault's dark fairy tale of Duke Bluebeard.