Andris Nelsons conducts Simon and Beethoven featuring Yuja Wang, piano
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
Carlos SIMON Warmth from Other Suns, for string orchestra
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
ELLINGTON Three Black Kings
ELLINGTON A Tone Parallel to Harlem
Yuja Wang brings her powerhouse artistry to Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, a piece renowned for its groundbreaking approach to the form and exquisite dialogue between piano and orchestra.
Andris Nelsons also leads the BSO in two pieces by the seminal Duke Ellington; the composer described A Tone Poem to Harlem as a musical stroll through the city on a Sunday morning, and Three Black Kings – originally written as a eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr. — was the last piece Ellington worked on before his death.
Tonight's concert is generously supported by Paul Chan and Donald J. Toumey.
Tonight's performance by Yuja Wang is generously supported by Joseph and Paula McNay, The New England Foundation.
Performance Details
Jul 13, 2024, 8:00pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Warmth from Other Suns, version for string orchestra
Original string quartet version composed in 2019 on commission for the Sphinx Organization; premiered February 8, 2020, in Detroit by violinists Teagan Faran and Natalie Frakes, violist Alycia Wilder, and cellist Jeremy Crosmer. Simon expanded the piece to a three-movement, 13-minute string orchestr...
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Opus 58
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 introduced the audience to something completely new.
Three Black Kings
Three Black Kings, Ellington’s last work, celebrates two Biblical kings and one then recently departed, Martin Luther King, Jr.
