Andris Nelsons conducts Strauss and Mozart featuring pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Andris Nelsons is joined by sisters Christina and Michelle Naughton for Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat for two pianos. Mozart probably wrote this elegant and brilliant concerto for himself and his sister Nännerl to play in about 1779; they had been performing together as siblings since early childhood. Maestro Nelsons continues his multi-season exploration of Richard Strauss’s music with both the BSO and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. A rarely heard scene from the composer’s legend-based 1901 opera Feuersnot— music not performed by the BSO since 1911—opens the program, followed by the composer’s beautiful and profound symphonic poem Death and Transfiguration.
With great disappointment, Dutch pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen have had to withdraw from their BSO performances, October 7, 8, 9, and 12, at Symphony Hall, due to unprecedented delays in the issuing of their travel visas. The program will remain the same with the Philadelphia-based Naughton sisters, Christina and Michelle, making their BSO debuts performing Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat for Two Pianos, K.365.
Program Notes & Works
‘Love Scene’ from Feuersnot
Can a desire for revenge be the main source of inspiration for writing an opera? Richard Strauss seemed to believe so.
Death and Transfiguration
Strauss felt that audiences could only understand Death and Transfiguration if they knew specifically what it was about.
Concerto in E-flat for two pianos, K.365
We don’t know for just what occasion Mozart wrote this concerto. We do know that he found it a rewarding piece for his concerts in Vienna, where he played it twice with his pupil Josephine Auernhammer.
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