POETIC FIRE : FROM HAMLET TO DON JUAN
POETIC FIRE : FROM HAMLET TO DON JUAN
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday , September 22 , 8pm Sunday , September 24 , 3pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday , September 23 , 8pm
Marin Alsop , Music Director Lukáš Vondráček , piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Hamlet Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare , op . 67
Richard Strauss Don Juan , op . 20 INTERMISSION
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No . 3 in D Minor , op . 30 Allegro ma non tanto Intermezzo Finale
Lukáš Vondráček
The concert will end at approximately 9:50 pm on Friday and Saturday and at 4:50 pm on Sunday .
PRESENTING SPONSOR :
Philharmonic , the Philharmonia and New Jersey Symphony orchestras as well as recitals at the Mariinsky Theatre , in Mumbai , Singapore , Leipzig ’ s Gewandhaus , at Brussel ’ s Flagey and the Menuhin Festival Gstaad .
International awards include first prizes at the Hilton Head and San Marino International Piano Competitions and Unisa International Piano Competition in Pretoria , South Africa , as well as the Raymond E . Buck Jury Discretionary Award at the 2009 International Van Cliburn Piano Competition .
Following studies at the Academy of Music in Katowice and the Vienna Conservatory , Vondráček obtained an Artist Diploma from Boston ’ s New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Hung-Kuan Chen , graduating with Honors in 2012 .
His first commercial recording , a solo album for Octavia Records , was released in 2004 followed by another recital disc in 2012 . His most recent CD , a recording of works by Brahms , was released in 2013 on the ORF label .
IRENE KIM
About the Artists
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop ’ s bio , please see pg . 10 .
Lukáš Vondráček
Winner of the International Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition 2016 , Lukáš Vondráček has an exciting 2017 – 2018 season ahead . He makes debuts with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra at Tokyo ’ s Suntory Hall , Moscow State Symphony Orchestra at the Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory , Prague Symphony Orchestra at the Rudolfinum , Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra at Amsterdam ’ s Concertgebouw and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra .
He returns to the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko , National Orchestra of Belgium , Bournemouth
Symphony and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra . Recitals take him to Vienna ’ s Konzerthaus , Hamburg ’ s Elbphilharmonie , the Louvre , the Philharmonie in Luxembourg , Portland , Chicago and to festivals such as PianoEspoo in Finland and the Rheingau Musik Festival . He tours Brazil in recital and plays orchestra concerts in Belo Horizonte , São Paulo and Florianópolis .
Vondráček made his first public appearance at the age of four . His debut at 15 in 2002 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy was followed by a major U . S . tour in 2003 . He has worked with conductors including Marin Alsop , Elim Chan , Stéphane Denève , Christoph Eschenbach , Jakub Hrůša , Pietari Inkinen , Paavo Järvi , Yannick Nézet-Seguin , Gianandrea Noseda , Vasily Petrenko , Anu Tali , Krzysztof Urbański and Xian Zhang .
Recent highlights include concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra , St . Petersburg
Lukáš Vondráček makes his BSO debut .
About the Concert
HAMLET FANTASY-OVERTURE
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Born in Votkinsk , Russia , May 7 , 1840 ; died in St . Petersburg , Russia , November 6 , 1893
In the summer of 1888 , Tchaikovsky was working simultaneously on two major orchestral pieces , one of them destined to join the classical hit parade , the other to remain an obscure connoisseurs ’ work . The famous one was his ultra-Romantic Symphony No . 5 , with its minatory Fate theme ; the other , which is also haunted by music representing malign fortune , is his Hamlet Fantasy-Overture , which we will hear tonight .
Hamlet is the last of three tone poems based on Shakespearean plays that the Russian created , the others being the beloved Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture and the beautiful , but rarely performed The Tempest Symphonic Fantasy-Overture .
16 OVERTURE / BSOmusic . org