Andris Nelsons conducts Caroline Shaw and Beethoven featuring Paul Lewis, piano
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Andris Nelsons and English pianist Paul Lewis collaborate on the second of three concerts encompassing all five of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos in one weekend. Each of these concerts opens with a BSO co-commissioned piece by an American woman. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Punctum, originally for string quartet, is a meditation on a brief moment in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Beethoven’s First Concerto (actually composed later than No. 2) is strongly anchored in the Viennese Classicism of Wolfgang Mozart and Joseph Haydn. The Fourth Concerto, written at the same time as Beethoven’s opera Leonore, is in the composer’s warm, lyrical style, but also makes room for brilliant virtuosity.
Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.
Gates open at 5:30pm
Performance Details
Jul 30, 2022, 8:00pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Punctum
Caroline Shaw’s Punctum reaches across the centuries for audible inspiration in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Opus 15
In the pattern familiar to Mozart and most composer/performers, as a soloist Beethoven needed to have a fresh concerto in his repertoire, written to strut his particular stuff.
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Opus 58
The Piano Concerto No. 4 introduced the audience to something completely new.
