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TURANGALÎLA-SYMPHONIE
“ THIS WAS SUBLIME
MUSIC-MAKING”
— THE BALTIMORE SUN
JOIN US AS WE RETURN TO
SHRIVER HALL AFTER AN
18-MONTH RENOVATION.
JOHANNES MOSER, CELLO
TILL FELLNER, PIANO
Works by Stravinsky, Webern,
Beethoven, Debussy
Sun, Mar 3 | 5:30pm
HAGEN QUARTET
JÖRG WIDMANN, CLARINET
Works by Dvořák,
Jörg Widmann, Mozart
Sun, Mar 24 | 5:30pm
PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI, PIANO
Works by Bach, Beethoven
Sun, Apr 7 | 5:30pm
ARCANGELO
JONATHAN COHEN, ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR, HARPSICHORD, ORGAN
JOÉLLE HARVEY, SOPRANO
Works by Handel, Bach,
Buxtehude
Sun, May 12 | 5:30pm
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In 2018 –19 he renews many
longstanding musical partnerships,
including touring a program of
Schumann, Fauré, Debussy and Enescu
with Midori; touring the great concert
halls of Europe with Lisa Batiashvili and
Gautier Capuçon; and performing
chamber music with brothers Renaud
and Gautier Capuçon. With Gautier 
he also premieres Richard Dubugnon’s 
Eros Athanatos, a fantaisie concertante
for cello and piano, with the West
Australian Symphony Orchestra.
They go on to perform the piece with
the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
across Belgium, at the Klavier-
Festival Ruhr and with the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France.
With the Cleveland Orchestra and
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Thibaudet
plays another piece that he introduced
to the world: James MacMillan’s
Piano Concerto No. 3. As one of the
premiere interpreters of the solo part in
Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety, Thibaudet
continues to perform the piece around the
world as the composer’s centennial year
comes to a close. In addition to playing it
with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
and Marin Alsop at the orchestra’s first-
ever appearance at the BBC Proms, he
performs it with the Los Angeles and
Brussels philharmonics and the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra. 
Thibaudet expresses his passion for
education and fostering young musical
talent as the first-ever Artist-in-Residence
at the Colburn School in Los Angeles,
where he makes his home. The school
has extended the residency for an
additional three years and has announced
the Jean-Yves Thibaudet Scholarships to
provide aid for Music Academy students,
whom Thibaudet will select for the
merit-based awards regardless of their
instrument choice. 
Thibaudet’s recording catalogue has
received two Grammy nominations, the
Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik,
the Diapason d’Or, the Choc du Monde
de la Musique, the Edison Prize and
Gramophone awards. He was the soloist
on the Oscar-winning and critically
acclaimed film Atonement, as well as Pride
and Prejudice, Extremely Loud & Incredibly
Close and Wakefield. His concert wardrobe
is designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood.
In 2010 the Hollywood Bowl honored
Thibaudet for his musical achievements
by inducting him into its Hall of Fame.
Previously a Chevalier of the Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres, Thibaudet was
awarded the title Officier by the French
Ministry of Culture in 2012.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet last appeared with the
BSO in August 2018, performing Bernstein’s
Age of Anxiety, Marin Alsop, conductor.
About the Concert
TURANGALÎLA-SYMPHONIE
Olivier Messiaen
Born in Avignon, France, December 10, 1908;
died in Clichy, France, April 27, 1992
Olivier Messiaen was one of the 20 th
century’s great originals: a deeply religious
composer who utterly transformed the way
music sounded and operated as he sought
to express the mysteries of Christianity. His
musical talent appeared early, and at age
ten, he became a student at the hallowed
Conservatoire de Paris, taking his harmony
lessons alongside adults. After winning
many prizes, he graduated in 1930 and,
a year, later became the organist at Paris’
La Trinité, a post he held until the end of
his life. His ear for instrumental color was
extraordinary: he actually saw sounds as
colors in the visual spectrum. Messiaen
wrote that the most important things in his
life were “God, love and Nature.” His music
was mystical and often radiantly joyous,
sounding like no one else’s before or since.
In 1945, Serge Koussevitzky, then
music director of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, offered the 36-year-old
Messiaen the kind of commission few
composers have ever had the good fortune
to receive. “Write me the work you want
to, in the style you want, as long as you
want and with the instrumental formation
you want.” The resulting work was the
Turangalîla-symphonie, an immense work
in every way: ten movements, lasting some
80 minutes and scored for an orchestra of
more than 100 players, including a virtuoso