"Intimate and Original": Dvořák's Eighth
This all-Slavic program brings together three works that boast passionate emotions, vivid colors, and consummate compositional mastery. Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, a perennial audience favorite, is a work aglow with the joys of life. The Philharmonic’s esteemed concertmaster Luke Fitzpatrick joins the orchestra for the U, S premiere of Serbian composer Isidora Žebeljan’s violin concerto Three Curious Loves, a work once affectionately described as a form of “crazy, wild, capricious Balkan dance”. As an opener, we present a little-known symphonic poem by Alexander Glazunov, Spring, a sumptuous and lyrical paean to the season of rebirth.
GLAZUNOV | Spring (A Musical Picture), Op. 34
ŽEBELJAN | Three Curious Loves (U. S. premiere)
Soloist | Luke Fitzpatrick, Violin
DVOŘÁK | Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88
January 20th
2 pm
Benaroya Hall
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"My best work": Tchaikovsky's Second
Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977) composed her exquisite and powerful Fairest of Stars, a setting of texts from John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in 1973; this final work by Williams to feature solo voice is presented in its U. S. premiere by soprano Stacey Mastrian, whose operatic and recital performances have garnered critical acclaim for “effortless mastery” and “showstopping heights”. Ms. Mastrian and the orchestra will also present Sibelius’ little-known symphonic poem with voice, Luonnotar. The Philharmonic concludes its 2023-24 season in grand fashion with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, the Ukrainian, a work in which the composer unreservedly expresses his love for the Ukrainian people and their folk music. The program opens, appropriately enough, with music by Tchaikovsky’s favorite composer, the overture to Don Giovanni by Mozart.