2008-2009 Season, Concert 2
November 20, 22 & 23, 2008
Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin, BWV 1060
Gilles Apap, violin
Peggy Pearson, oboe
Berg: Violin Concerto
Gilles Apap, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
For the second concert of the season we have two soloists – the orchestra’s astonishing first oboe, Peggy Pearson, and the violinist Gilles Apap. Apap’s unconventional career is almost impossible to categorize, since there is hardly any music, from any era, in any style, that he does not play. His total command of the instrument is the envy of every violin virtuoso. At this concert he will join Pearson in Bach’s Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe, and will also play Alban Berg’s deeply moving Violin Concerto. In addition, in conjunction with his Boston Philharmonic appearances he will present a program at the Berklee School of Music where the focus will shift to other areas of his versatility – jazz improvisation, gypsy fiddling, and perhaps even bluegrass! In his late years Yehudi Menuhin fell under the spell of Apap’s playing and prophesied that he represented the way of the future. You, too, will find that Apap’s playing is like nothing you have ever heard before.
Concluding the concert is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.” Perhaps Menuhin was right about Gilles Apap’s pointing to the future of classical musical performance, perhaps not. But there is no doubt whatsoever that Beethoven’s epochal “Eroica” Symphony changed music forever. It heralded a bold new musical language and a whole new stance of the composer towards his audience. Beethoven dictated the terms, made the rules – the tastes and preferences of the audience and the convenience or ego of the performer were no longer to be taken into account. Everything about this symphony is unprecedented: its size, its range of expression, its harmonic audacity, its political and philosophical implications, its demands on the orchestra and on the conductor. In these performances the attempt will be to recapture the extraordinary newness, the now-ness, of this pinnacle of the symphonic repertoire. |
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Sanders Theatre
Discovery Series, 7:30pm
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Jordan Hall
Pre-concert talk, 6:45pm
Concert, 8:00pm
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Sanders Theatre
Pre-concert talk, 1:45pm
Concert, 3:00pm
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