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Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich
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  October 8, 2009 8:00 PM
  October 9, 2009 1:30 PM
  October 10, 2009 8:00 PM
  October 13, 2009 8:00 PM
[BSO]
Boston Symphony Orchestra
October 8, 2009 8:00 PM
Symphony Hall
Boston, Massachusetts
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Featured Artists
[Vasily Petrenko]
Vasily Petrenko
conductor
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Program  Notes   Audio 
STRAVINSKY
 Scherzo fantastique
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RACHMANINOFF
 The Isle of the Dead
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SHOSTAKOVICH
 Symphony No. 10
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Audio Concert Preview by Richard Dyer, narrated by Eleanor McGourty.

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About the Music

St. Petersburg-born conductor Vasily Petrenko, chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, makes his BSO debut in the first three performances of this all-Russian program, and BSO assistant conductor Julian Kuerti leads the final concert of the series, on October 13. One of Stravinsky's earliest works, the 1908 Scherzo fantastique shows the imprint of the composer's studies with Rimsky-Korsakov. Stravinsky himself declared that it owed less to Rimsky than to “Mendelssohn via Tchaikovsky.” This brilliant concert-opener contrasts strongly with Rachmaninoff's tone poem The Isle of the Dead, a substantial, atmospheric work inspired by a famous series of paintings by the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin. Completed in 1909, the piece was first performed by the BSO under the composer's direction that year. Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 was a response to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Written eight years after his Symphony No. 9 and considered one of his finest, the Tenth seems partly to have been an exorcism of his resentment of the Soviet leader.
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