CLASSICAL COLLECTION Ravel’ s Boléro, Debussy & Saint-Saëns
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Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, March 13, 2026 at 8 pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Jun Märkl, conductor Stewart Goodyear, piano
Camille Pépin Les eaux célestes( The Celestial Waters) Tisser les nuages(“ Weave the clouds”) Le séparation(“ The separation”) Les larmes perlées(“ The pearly tears”) Le pont des ailes(“ The wing bridge”)
Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto, No. 5, F Major, Op. 103,“ Egyptian” I. Allegro animato II. Andante III. Molto allegro
INTERMISSION Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Stewart Goodyear, piano
“ Ibéria”, No. 2 from Images I.
Par les rues et par les chemins(“ Through Streets and Lanes”)
II. Les parfums de la nuit(“ The Fragrances of the Night”)
III. Le matin d ' un jour de fête(“ Morning of a Feast-Day”)
Boléro
This performance is approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes and includes a 20-minute intermission.
Jun Märkl
Jun Märkl
Jun Märkl is a highly respected interpreter of core Germanic repertoire and has become renown for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists. He currently serves as Music Director of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and is the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, Netherlands. He serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Oregon Symphony.
Märkl’ s expertise in the world of opera and long historical relationships with the state operas of Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Metropolitan Opera of New York, San Francisco Opera and New National Theatre in Tokyo have been complemented over the past many decades by his orchestral music directorships of the Orchestre National de Lyon, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra, and the Malaysia Philharmonic.
Märkl regularly guest conducts the leading orchestras of North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe and has conducted many of the world’ s most prestigious orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, NHK Tokyo, and many others. Mr. Märkl also has an extensive discography of more than 55 recordings.
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