"The gentle fragrance of love": Mahler's Rückert-Lieder
From among three choices, the members of the Seattle Philharmonic voted to close our season with Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, in its most famous orchestration by Maurice Ravel. These resplendent symphonic canvases will share the bill with three short works by Nicole Buetti — one for strings, one for winds and brass, and one for the entire orchestra spotlighting the percussion. Soprano Stacey Mastrian makes a welcome return engagement to our stage in the most exquisite and intimate of Gustav Mahler’s song cycles, the achingly beautiful Rückert-Lieder.
BUETTI |
• Restless Winds
• Sforza!
• Meet the Instruments: Fanfare
MAHLER | Rückert-Lieder
Soloist | Stacey Mastrian, Soprano
MUSSORGSKY | Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
May 30th
2 pm
Benaroya Hall
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"In such a night as this": Nocturnes
A nocturnal atmosphere hovers over this program bookended by two of the literature’s most famous pieces inspired by the magic and mystery of the nighttime hours: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Claude Debussy’s orchestral trilogy Nocturnes, the latter a collaboration with the acclaimed Seattle Girls Choir. The Philharmonic’s principal cellist Soohyun Juhn takes the solo spotlight in works by sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger, including Lili’s Nocturne. A handful of shorter Debussy works and Franz von Suppé’s ever-popular overture to the operetta Poet and Peasant round out this unique concert.