Classical Beat: Tanglewood Music Festival Concludes Its Classical Season By Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires
08:00AM / Wednesday, August 21, 2024 | |
Tanglewood Music Festival Concludes Its Classical Season
This week, Tanglewood concludes its magnificently curated, presented and performed 2024 classical music summer festival season with panache by showcasing several performing soloists and a noted Finnish conductor – all making their Tanglewood debut performances. Orchestral masterworks by Brahms, Beethoven, Elgar and Ravel, as well as stellar concerto performances of works by Mozart and Chopin will take center stage in the Shed. These, in addition to several outstanding Ozawa Hall chamber music programs, leading to the traditional Tanglewood Music Festival season- concluding performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ('Choral') will enthrall listeners. Read below for the details, including the end-of-season Popular Artists appearances in the Shed and in Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning..
Four Tanglewood Classical Highlights This Week
A brilliant violin/piano recital program in Ozawa Hall will feature pianist Alessio Bax and violinist James Ehnes in their Tanglewood debuts performing Mozart (Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K.304); Brahms (Violin Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78) and Beethoven (Violin Sonata No. 9 in A, Op. 47 'Kreutzer') (August 21).
The rising star American conductor Ryan Bancroft makes his BSO debut in the Shed, along with the elegantly expressive pianist Bruce Liu in Chopin's enraptured Piano Concerto No. 1, followed by Elgar's deeply moving Enigma Variations (August 23).
Conductor Karina Canellakis and the BSO accompany violinist James Ehnes in Chausson's sensitively lyrical "Poème" on a program that features the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in the Shed (Brahms: 'Shicksalslied'); they will also perform works by Beethoven and Ravel (August 24).
Ludovic Marlot will conduct BSOs performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on Sunday, August 25 at 2:30 pm in the Shed.
Full Tanglewood Schedule of Concerts, Events
Wednesday, August 21
8 p.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Recital Series
James Ehnes, violin
Alessio Bax, piano
MOZART Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K.304
BRAHMS Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 9 in A, Op. 47, ('Kreutzer')
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Thursday, August 22
1 p.m., Tent Club
TLI Talks and Walks
Anthony Fogg, moderator, with conductor Karina
Canellakis
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Friday, August 23
6 p.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Koussevitzky and the Choral Connection: exploring
choral works by composers who were commissioned
by the Koussevitzky Foundation
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
TIPPETT "Dance, Clarion Air"
POULENC Salve Regina
STRAVINSKY Ave Maria
BRITTEN "A Hymn to the Virgin"
Helen GRIME Telling
MESSIAEN O Sacrum Convivium
WALTON "Set me as a seal upon thine heart"
WALKER "Stars"
Augusta Read THOMAS "The Rewaking"
HARVEY "Come, Holy Ghost"
8 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Bancroft, conductor
Bruce Liu, piano
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1
ELGAR 'Enigma' Variations
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Saturday, August 24
10:30 a.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program
8 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis, conductor
James Ehnes, violin
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
Karina Canellakis conducts Beethoven, Brahms,
Chausson, and Ravel
BEETHOVEN "The Creatures of Prometheus" overture
BRAHMS "Schicksalslied"
CHAUSSON "Poème," for violin and orchestra
RAVEL Tzigane
RAVEL "Daphnis et Chloé," Suite No. 2
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Sunday, August 25
2:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Ambur Braid, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Elgan Llr Thomas, tenor
Davóne Tines, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
BRUCKNER Ecce sacerdos magnus
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 ('Choral')
THREE TANGLEWOOD POPULAR ARTIST PERFORMANCES
Sunday, August 25
7 p.m., Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
TLI Presents: The Edmar Castaneda Quartet
Edmar Castaneda, harp
Andrea Tierra, vocalist
Shlomi Cohen, sax
Rodrigo Villalon, drums
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Friday, August 30
7 p.m., Shed
Popular Artist Series
Judy Collins, The Indigo Girls, and Rufus Wainwright
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Saturday, August 31
7 p.m., Shed
Popular Artist Series
DISPATCH with the Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
For tickets to all Tanglewood events, call (888) 266-1200, or go online at tanglewood.org.
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