Alan Gilbert conducts Boulanger, Dello Joio, Dvořák, and Stenhammar with Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
American conductor Alan Gilbert and frequent BSO guest Garrick Ohlsson premiere Justin Dello Joio’s piano concerto Oceans Apart, written for Ohlsson. Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar’s wide-ranging 1911 Serenade has a satisfyingly symphonic scope. French composer Lili Boulanger’s impressionistic 1918 depiction of a spring morning and Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s celebratory Carnival Overture, from 1891, complete the program.
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
BOULANGER D’un Matin de printemps (5)
STENHAMMAR Serenade (34)
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Justin DELLO JOIO Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Oceans Apart (world premiere; BSO commission) (20)
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture (10)
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
D’un Matin de printemps
Lili Boulanger's D’un Matin de printemps is a brief, nuanced piece combining joyful high spirits with poignant introspection.
Serenade
Inspired by a trip to Italy, Swedish composer Stenhammar hoped to create “the kind of beautiful poetry about the South of which only a northerner is capable.”
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Oceans Apart
New York-native composer Justin Dello Joio wrote his powerful concerto Oceans Apart for the great pianist Garrick Ohlsson on commission from the BSO.
Carnival Overture
Dvořák’s Carnival Overture represents humankind’s capacity for joy and celebration.
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