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Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho n y Hall
Tchaikovsky’s
First Piano Concerto
Friday, May 8, 2015 — 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 9, 2015 — 8p.m.
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Lukáš Vondráček, Piano
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture, opus 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, opus 23
Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso
Andantino semplice
Allegro con fuoco
Lukáš Vondrácˇek
INTERMISSION
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, opus 131
Moderato
Allegretto
Andante espressivo
Vivace
The concert will end at approximately 9:55 p.m.
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 7.
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Lukáš
Vondráček
Lukáš Vondráček’s
natural and assured
musicality and
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remarkable technical ability have long
marked him out as a gifted and mature
musician. He has worked with conductors including Paavo Järvi, Gianandrea
Noseda, Zdeněk Mácal, Vasily Petrenko,
Jakub Hrůša and Anu Tali.
Highlights of the 2014 –2015 season
include concerts with the Trondheim
Symfoniorkester and Krzysztof Urbański
and the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo and Marin Alsop.
Vondráček performs a recital at the
Queen Elizabeth Hall in London as a
part of the International Piano Series
where, in 2007, he made his UK recital
debut as the youngest pianist to have ever
been featured in this series.
He works regularly with ensembles such
as the London, St. Petersburg and Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras; the
Philharmonia and Gulbenkian orchestras,
Wiener Symphoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester
Zürich, NHK Symphony Orchestra and
Washington’s National orchestras. Recent
highlights include a tour of Spain with
the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi and
Michal Nesterowicz and a highly
successful tour of Australia.
Lukáš Vondráček last appeared
with the BSO in March 2011
playing Rachmaninonff’s Rhapsody
on a Theme of Pagagnini with
Marin Alsop conducting.
About the concert:
Russian Easter Overture, opus 36
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Born in Tikhvin, Russia, March 18, 1844;
died in Liubensk, Russia, June 21, 1908
During the summers of 1887 and 1888,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the three
brilliantly scored and sensuously melodic
orchestral pieces by which he is most
often represented on symphonic programs
today: the Capriccio espagnol, Scheherazade
and the Russian Easter Overture. Coming
immediately after Scheherazade, th Hݙ\