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Karina Canellakis conducts Dvořák, Lutosławski, and Szymanowski with Nicola Benedetti, violin

Jan 19 - Jan 21
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Karina Canellakis conducts Dvořák, Lutosławski, and Szymanowski with Nicola Benedetti, violin
Karina Canellakis, conductor Nicola Benedetti, Violin

Making her BSO debut, violinist Nicola Benedetti joins conductor Karina Canellakis in her Symphony Hall debut for Karel Szymanowski’s scintillating Violin Concerto No. 2 from 1933, his last major work. His compatriot Witold Lutosławski’s folk-music influenced Concerto for Orchestra (1954) helped establish his international reputation. Antonín Dvořák’s nature-inspired tone poem Wood Dove has not been played by the BSO since 1905.


Karina Canellakis, conductor
Nicola Benedetti, violin

DVOŘÁK Wood Dove (18)

SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2 (22)

---- Intermission----

LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra (28)

Karina Canellakis, conductor Nicola Benedetti, Violin

Making her BSO debut, violinist Nicola Benedetti joins conductor Karina Canellakis in her Symphony Hall debut for Karel Szymanowski’s scintillating Violin Concerto No. 2 from 1933, his last major work. His compatriot Witold Lutosławski’s folk-music influenced Concerto for Orchestra (1954) helped establish his international reputation. Antonín Dvořák’s nature-inspired tone poem Wood Dove has not been played by the BSO since 1905.


Karina Canellakis, conductor
Nicola Benedetti, violin

DVOŘÁK Wood Dove (18)

SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2 (22)

---- Intermission----

LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra (28)

Karina Canellakis, conductor Nicola Benedetti, Violin

Making her BSO debut, violinist Nicola Benedetti joins conductor Karina Canellakis in her Symphony Hall debut for Karel Szymanowski’s scintillating Violin Concerto No. 2 from 1933, his last major work. His compatriot Witold Lutosławski’s folk-music influenced Concerto for Orchestra (1954) helped establish his international reputation. Antonín Dvořák’s nature-inspired tone poem Wood Dove has not been played by the BSO since 1905.


Karina Canellakis, conductor
Nicola Benedetti, violin

DVOŘÁK Wood Dove (18)

SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2 (22)

---- Intermission----

LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra (28)

Karina Canellakis, conductor Nicola Benedetti, Violin

Making her BSO debut, violinist Nicola Benedetti joins conductor Karina Canellakis in her Symphony Hall debut for Karel Szymanowski’s scintillating Violin Concerto No. 2 from 1933, his last major work. His compatriot Witold Lutosławski’s folk-music influenced Concerto for Orchestra (1954) helped establish his international reputation. Antonín Dvořák’s nature-inspired tone poem Wood Dove has not been played by the BSO since 1905.


Karina Canellakis, conductor
Nicola Benedetti, violin

DVOŘÁK Wood Dove (18)

SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2 (22)

---- Intermission----

LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra (28)

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