With howling harmonies, gut-punching rhythms and a prehistoric plot that builds to the pagan sacrifice of a virgin dancing herself to death, it’s no wonder that Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring set off a riot at its first performance. Thomas Dausgaard, leading an oversized orchestra, lets loose all the physicality and wild abandon embedded in this earthshaking ballet.
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Thursday, 21 November, 2019 7:30PM
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Saturday, 23 November, 2019 8:00PM
Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, his last and largest, earns its “Emperor” nickname with majestic keyboard flourishes and sumptuous orchestral surroundings. Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony jubilantly relives the brilliant sunshine, mystical nights and spirited locals that greeted the young genius on his Grand Tour.
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Thursday, 9 January, 2020 7:30PM
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Friday, 10 January, 2020 12:00PM
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Saturday, 11 January, 2020 8:00PM
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto ushers us into that rare space where every gesture is essential and meaningful, from the anticipatory taps on the timpani to the ascendant arpeggios of the finale. Thomas Zehetmair serves as both conductor and soloist in this spellbinding concerto, bringing what the BBC hails as “a virtuoso technique married to a musical mind that won’t take anything for granted.”
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Thursday, 16 January, 2020 7:30PM
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Saturday, 18 January, 2020 8:00PM
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Sunday, 19 January, 2020 2:00PM
Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto offers an unguarded view into a tormented composer’s private, deeply felt reserves of emotion. The symphonic masterstrokes of Denmark’s greatest musical hero, Carl Nielsen, take on extra significance in the hands of his compatriot Thomas Dausgaard.
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Thursday, 30 January, 2020 7:30PM
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Saturday, 1 February, 2020 8:00PM
Violinist Gidon Kremer finds “a source of an unlimited inspiration” in Mieczysław Weinberg, a Polish-born, Soviet composer who followed in the shadow of his mentor and friend, Dmitri Shostakovich. The progress of an outsider working a century earlier is echoed in Antonín Dvořák, who indulged in glorious sounds of nature and Czech country life in his Eighth Symphony.
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Thursday, 6 February, 2020 7:30PM
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Saturday, 8 February, 2020 8:00PM
