2016-17 Season Brochures 2016-2017 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Season | Page 14

MAR/APR Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 Beethoven’s Emperor Marin Alsop, conductor Hélène Grimaud, piano Paul Goodwin, conductor Jan Lisiecki, piano Anna Clyne: Within Her Arms (BSO Premiere) Schumann: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish” Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Stravinsky: Concerto in E-flat,“Dumbarton Oaks” Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 Reflective and mournful, yet optimistic, this program reveals artists at important turning points. Anna Clyne’s Within Her Arms is a moving elegy written shortly after the passing of her mother. Schumann’s richly Romantic symphony was written on the edge of his eventual madness and collapse. Following the lukewarm reception for his first concerto, Brahms waited 22 years before penning the second. Here, as performed by virtuoso Hélène Grimaud, it was clearly worth the wait: an expansive meditation on Brahms’ life and the promise of the future. With his informed historical approach, Paul Goodwin is the ideal conductor to reveal the musical relationship between classical Beethoven in his dazzling Fourth Symphony and the sprightly 20th century neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky. Goodwin is joined by another artist making his debut, the remarkable 21-year-old Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, harnessing his prodigious skill to conquer Beethoven’s grandest concerto of all, the “Emperor.” FRI, MAR 3, 8 PM SAT, MAR 4, 8 PM HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD PAUL GOODWIN FRI, MAR 10, 8 PM SUN, MAR 12, 3 PM Stravinsky’s Petrushka FRI, MAR 24, 8 PM SUN, MAR 26, 3 PM Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Chausson: Poème for Violin and Orchestra Ravel: Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947) STRAVINSKY’S PETRUSHKA A superb music colorist and BSO favorite, Tortelier has conjured up an enchanting French-inspired program that has a hint of mystery and just a touch of the sinister. Dukas’ magicians pull the strings as apprentices reach too far, and Stravinsky’s puppets dare to dream of love. Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s fingers fly through two evocative works: gypsies tease in the flashy Tzigane, while a spurned lover has the last word in Poème. This is truly a program designed to show off the wizardry of the BSO!