2008-2009 Season, Concert 3
February 19, 21 & 22, 2009
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 Gabriela Montero, piano
Gabriela Montero is one of the Boston Philharmonic’s most beloved soloists. This will mark her third appearance with the orchestra, playing one of the major romantic concertos for which she is so well known. In fact, the Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto is the work with which her name is most closely associated, and it was her performances of it, so generously praised by the legendary (and hard to please) pianist Martha Argerich, that first catapulted her to international attention. The Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto is one of the most beloved of all concertos for piano – and one of the hardest to play. Montero’s impassioned, extroverted style of playing, with its fearless risk-taking even in awesomely difficult passages, makes her a natural for this work. As always, as her unique signature in the world of classical music, she will end with improvised encores in a huge variety of styles, based on themes suggested by the audience.
See and hear Gabriela Montero perform at the Obama inauguration with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Anthony McGill:
Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra is a direct descendant of Bartók’s famous concerto and may fairly be ranked as a work of the same quality and beauty. Like its predecessor it is subtly infiltrated by echoes of folk music, is scored with masterly precision, is thrilling in live performance, and presents a formidable technical challenge to any orchestra in the world.
These two Central European masterpieces will be unfamiliar to most audience members as they enter the hall, but will have them buzzing with the excitement of discovery at intermission.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Sanders Theatre
Discovery Series, 7:30pm
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Jordan Hall
Pre-concert talk, 6:45pm
Concert, 8:00pm
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Thursday, February 19, 2009