VIVALDI FOUR SEASONS
VIVALDI FOUR SEASONS
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, October 19, 2018, 8 pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, October 18, 2018, 8 pm Saturday, October 20, 2018, 8 pm
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Boram Kang, violin Angela Lee, violin Qing Li, violin Audrey Wright, violin
Franz Schubert Selections from Rosamunde, D. 797 Overture( Die Zauberharfe, D. 644) Ballet No. 1 – Allegro Moderato Entr’ acte No. 3 – Andantino Ballet No. 2 – Andantino
Antonio Vivaldi Le quattro stagioni( The Four Seasons), op. 8
Concerto No. 1 in E Major,“ La Primavera”( Spring) Allegro Largo Allegro
INTERMISSION
Boram Kang
Concerto No. 2 in G minor,“ L’ Estate”( Summer) Allegro non molto Adagio Presto
Audrey Wright
Vivaldi Concerto No. 3 in F Major,“ L’ autunno”( Autumn) Allegro Adagio molto Allegro
Angela Lee
Concerto No. 4 in F minor,“ L’ inverno”( Winter) Allegro non molto Largo Allegro
Qing Li
Robert Schumann Konzertstück Lebhaft Romanze: Ziemlich langsam Sehr lebhaft
Philip Munds Lisa Bergman
Austin Larson Gabrielle Finck
The program will end at approximately 10 pm.
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
Philip Munds, horn Lisa Bergman, horn Austin Larson, horn Gabrielle Finck, horn
RANDY BEACH
About the Artists
Nicholas McGegan
As he embarks on his sixth decade on the podium, Nicholas McGegan— long hailed as“ one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation”( The Independent) and“ an expert in 18 th-century style”( The New Yorker)— is recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. The 2018 – 19 season marks his 33 rd year as music director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale and he is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Pasadena Symphony.
Best known as a Baroque and Classical specialist, McGegan’ s approach— intelligent, infused with joy and never dogmatic— has led to appearances with many of the world’ s major orchestras. At home in opera houses, McGegan shone new light on close to 20 Handel operas as the artistic director and conductor at the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years( 1991 – 2001) and the Mozart canon as principal guest conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. At the same time, he was principal conductor of the Drottningholm Opera in Sweden.
McGegan’ s prolific discography includes more than 100 releases spanning five decades. Having recorded over 50 albums of Handel, McGegan has explored the depths of the composer’ s output with a dozen oratorios and close to twenty of his operas. Under its own label, Philharmonia Baroque Productions( PBP), Philharmonia has released almost a dozen acclaimed albums of Handel, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Brahms, Haydn, Beethoven and more. Since the 1980s, McGegan has released more than 20 recordings with Hungary’ s Capella Savaria on the Hungaroton label, the latest being a 2-CD set of the complete Mozart violin concertos.
English-born McGegan was educated at Cambridge and Oxford. He is an honorary professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and also was given an honorary Doctorate of Music
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