Casual Friday: Hannu Lintu conducts Berg and Schumann with Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
BERG Violin Concerto
Intermission
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
Postlude
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
Roxanna PANUFNIK Love Endureth
BYRD Ave Verum Corpus
Roderick WILLIAMS Ave Verum Corpus re-imagined
THOMPSON The Peaceable Kingdom
Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu leads the BSO and frequent guest Leonidas Kavakos in Alban Berg’s final finished piece; quoting poignantly from Bach, this haunting 1935 Violin Concerto was written in response to the death of a friend’s daughter. In closing, Robert Schumann’s majestic Symphony No. 4, which draws inspiration from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in its use of recurring musical themes to tie together the work’s four movements.
Please allow additional arrival and entry time before your concert due to MBTA construction at the Symphony Green Line station. Parts of the sidewalk in front of Symphony Hall will be closed Mon-Fri 9:30am–3:30pm until further notice, however sidewalks will reopen two hours before BSO events
Performance Details
Nov 10, 2023, 8:00pm EST
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Violin Concerto
Berg’s Violin Concerto was first performed in Barcelona in 1936 by Louis Krasner, longtime violin teacher at the New England Conservatory and at Tanglewood; the BSO gave the American premiere with Krasner under Serge Koussevitzky.
Symphony No. 4
The fundamental melodic idea of Schumann's Symphony No. 4 is derived from pitches corresponding to his wife Clara’s name, a not-so-hidden code that underlies the passion and the lyrical warmth of this innovative symphony.
