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JOSHUA BELL PLAYS MENDELSSOHN | Premium
SAT, APR 22, 8 PM
ANNA RAKITINA, CONDUCTOR JOSHUA BELL, VIOLIN
ELLEN REID When the World As You’ ve Known It Doesn’ t Exist MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto ELGAR Variations on an Original Theme,“ Enigma”
You can always count on the superstar violinist Joshua Bell to perform Mendelssohn’ s deeply poetic concerto with“ huge tenderness, rendering the audience to jelly”( Bachtrack). The young Russian conductor Anna Rakitina navigates the mysteries and charms of Elgar’ s titillating Enigma Variations, and she introduces one of the most compelling voices in contemporary music: the Pulitzer prize-winning composer and sound artist Ellen Reid, who weaves the intimate tones of three wordless sopranos into a score that reflects on women’ s suffrage.
ISATA RETURNS
SAT, JUN 10, 8 PM
KEVIN JOHN EDUSEI, CONDUCTOR ISATA KANNEH-MASON, PIANO
KODÁLY Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song,“ Peacock” PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
The phenomenon that started when Isata Kanneh- Mason led her siblings onto the stage of Britain’ s Got Talent( prompting Simon Cowell to declare them“ the most talented family in the world”) has blossomed into a transformational career for this worldly young pianist. Fresh off her local debut of Clara Schumann’ s concerto, Kanneh-Mason returns to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with the bold showpiece that Prokofiev wrote to delight American audiences. Conductor Kevin John Edusei brings clarity to Brahms’ noble Fourth Symphony and Kodály’ s earthy“ Peacock” Variations.
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