Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart, Shaw, and Strauss
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Caroline Shaw wrote her Bach-inspired Punctum originally for string quartet; the BSO-commissioned orchestral version was premiered in summer 2022. The second of his final trilogy of symphonies, composed in 1788, Wolfgang Mozart’s riveting No. 40 in G minor is for many his most familiar symphony. Richard Strauss’ amazingly vivid Alpine Symphony depicts the picturesque ascent and (much faster!) descent of a Bavarian mountain.
Performance Details
Nov 3, 2022, 10:30am EDT
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Program Notes & Works
Punctum
Caroline Shaw’s Punctum reaches across the centuries for audible inspiration in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
Symphony No. 40
One of Mozart’s few major instrumental works in a minor key, the Symphony No. 40 is as intense and dramatic as anything the composer ever wrote.
An Alpine Symphony
The last of Richard Strauss’s tone poems, An Alpine Symphony musically depicts a mountain-climbing expedition from the composer’s childhood and reflects his “adoration of eternal, glorious nature” as well as the influence of Nietzschean philosophy.
