Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Boston, Symphony Hall, & the BSO in 1900

Boston Symphony Chamber Players Earl Lee, conductor (Mahler) Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano Randall Hodgkinson, piano LOEFFLER Timbres oubliés, for clarinet and harp KOECHLIN Two Nocturnes for flute, horn, and piano SAINT-SAËNS Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs, for flute, oboe, clarinet, and piano       intermission BEACH Three pieces for violin and piano MAHLER Songs of a Wayfarer (arr. SCHOENBERG)

To parallel our celebrations of Symphony Hall’s 125th anniversary, frequent guest pianist Randall Hodgkinson joins the Chamber Players for a program featuring composers active at the time of the hall’s opening in 1900. Amy Beach and Charles Martin Loeffler were both prominent in Boston’s musical community at the turn of the last century. Charles Koechlin and Camille Saint-Saëns represent two generations of Parisian music, while Mahler (and his younger colleague Schoenberg) were both active in Vienna.