In the shattering, world-ending conclusion of The Ring, the golden ring is finally restored to its rightful owners. On this odyssey you’ll thrill to Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, the stentorian Calling of the Vassals, Siegfried’s gripping Funeral March, Brünnhilde’s tragic Immolation as she joins her beloved on a funeral pyre whose sparks set Valhalla on fire.
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Immerse yourself in powerful emotions as Edward Gardner, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, leads the DSO in the first classical concert of the season.
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It’s a harmonic convergence of distinguished women in music. DSO favorite Anne-Marie McDermott joins with Estonian conductor Anu Tali for Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto and Alisson Kruusmaa’s ethereal Arabesques.
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Gershwin’s Concerto in F is a concert favorite that speaks in America’s musical vernacular— jazz — and is the perfect vehicle for the showstopping talents of Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Internationally renowned conductor Juanjo Mena returns to lead the DSO’s first-ever performance of Bartók’s The Wooden Prince.
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Two favorites of classical music await you at this concert, masterfully led by Music Director Fabio Luisi. Fellow-Italian, violinist Francesca Dego, joins him and the DSO for Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. The second half of the program features Mozart’s regal “Jupiter” Symphony.
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Led by Austrian conductor Markus Poschner, Dvořák’s most-beloved symphony, the Ninth, beguiles you with cascades of hummable tunes, bold horn calls and suggestions of African- and Native American melodies he heard during his American sojourn.
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Berlioz’s Symphonie Fastastique is a work of opulent orchestral colors and effects that tells a “fantastic” story. Giedrė Šlekytė “the embodiment of youthful energy, enthusiasm, and determination “(La scena musicale) makes her DSO premiere leading Strauss’s tuneful Oboe Concerto, with Principal Oboe Erin Hannigan in the spotlight.
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A work of nearly symphonic proportions, Brahms’s Violin Concerto has been enthusiastically embraced by awestruck audiences for a century-and-a-half. As you listen to Augustin Hadelich’s tour de force interpretation, you, too, will feel its tender lyricism, vigor, charm, and gypsy folk rhythms.
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Beethoven’s Fifth…no other symphony has such instant recognition. Rising from its four powerful opening chords, it follows a euphoric path from tragedy to triumph, from darkness into the light, uplifting your spirits on the journey.
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In speaking of his Sixth Symphony, Sibelius said that “it is, above all, a poem,” and told his publisher that the music is like “pure, cold water.” Peace and calm of another kind prevail in Duruflé’s incandescent Requiem (featuring the Lay Family Concert Organ).
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