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WAGNER’S QUEST
About the Artists
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Thursday, October 5, 8 pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Sunday, October 8, 3pm
Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor
Jonathan Carney, violin
Alfred Walker, bass-baritone
Felix Mendelssohn The Hebrides Overture, op. 26, “Fingal’s Cave”
Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, op. 46
Prelude: Grave
Adagio cantabile
Allegro
Andante sostenuto
Finale: Allegro guerriero
Jonathan Carney
INTERMISSION
Richard Wagner
Selections from Parsifal
Prelude to Act I
Act I
“Nein! Laßt ihn unenthüllt!”
Transformation Music
Act III
“Ja, Wehe! Wehe! Weh’ über mich!”
“Nur eine Waffe taugt”
Alfred Walker
The concert will end at approximately 9:40 pm on Thursday and at 4:40 pm on Sunday.
OFF THE CUFF
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Friday, October 6, 8:15 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Saturday, October 7, 7pm
Richard Wagner
Selections from Parsifal
Prelude to Act I
Act I
“Nein! Laßt ihn unenthüllt!”
Transformation Music
Act III
“Ja, Wehe! Wehe! Weh’ über mich!”
“Nur eine Waffe taugt”
Alfred Walker
The concert will end at approximately 9:15 pm on Friday and at 8 pm on Saturday.
SUPPORTING SPONSOR:
Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz is
Principal Conductor
of the Netherlands
Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra, Principal
Guest Conductor of the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra and conductor-
in-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,
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
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
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