SYMPHONIC DANCES
SYMPHONIC DANCES
JOSEP MOLINA
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, April 6, 2018, 8pm Sunday, April 8, 2018, 3pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday, April 7, 2018, 8pm
Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor Arabella Steinbacher, violin
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major, op. 21 Adagio molto- Allegro con brio Andante cantabile con moto Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace Finale: Adagio- Allegro molto e vivace
Erich Korngold Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35 Moderato nobile Romance: Andante Finale: Allegro assai vivace
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About the Artists
Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz is principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and conductorin-residence of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He has appeared at many of the world’ s major opera houses and international festivals.
Until the summer of 2014, he was Gürzenich-Kapellmeister and general music director of the City of Cologne,
Arabella Steinbacher
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, op. 45 Non allegro Andante con moto( Tempo di valse) Lento assai- Allegro vivace
The concert will end at approximately 10 pm on Friday and Saturday and 5 pm on Sunday.
PRESENTING SPONSORS: and principal guest conductor of the Hallé. His previous positions have included artistic director and chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony, music director of the Montepulciano Festival and principal conductor of the London Sinfonietta.
Trained at the School of Music in Cologne under Volker Wangenheim and at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, Stenz has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Silberne Stimmgabel( Silver Tuning Fork) of the state of North Rhein / Westphalia.
Recent engagements have taken Stenz all over the world, from São Paulo to
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Shanghai, conducting premieres and world premieres, including the German premiere of a cello concerto by Pascal Dusapin with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and an orchestral work by Dieter Ammann with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich in June 2016.
Internationally, Stenz’ s touring schedule takes him to the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and Leeds and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra on a tour throughout Japan performing Beethoven’ s Symphony No. 9.
His extensive discography was recently enlarged by the addition of the Dutch premiere of K. A. Hartmann’ s Simplicius Simplicissimus( Challenge Classics); the complete Mahler symphonies( Oehms Classics), which was selected among the Quarterly Critic’ s Choice by the German Record Critics’ Award Association; and various Schoenberg recordings with the Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne, which earned the 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Best Choral Album.
Markus Stenz last appeared with the BSO in October 2017, conducting selections from Wagner’ s Parsifal.
Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Steinbacher is celebrated as one of today’ s leading violinists, since giving her outstanding debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Sir Neville Marriner in Paris in 2004.
Known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire, Steinbacher plays all major Classical and Romantic violin concertos, as well as those of Bartók, Berg, Glazunov, Katchaturian, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Szymanowski, Hindemith, Hartmann and Sofia Gubaidulina’ s Offertorium, to name a few.
In Germany, Steinbacher frequently plays with all major orchestra, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the WDR
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