Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts Bartók, Enescu, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky with Emanuel Ax, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Colombian conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada in his BSO debut is joined by American pianist Emanuel Ax for Wolfgang Mozart’s high-spirited Piano Concerto No. 18. The familiar, yearning Romeo and Juliet Overture is one of several works Pyotr Tchaikovsky based on Shakespeare plays. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s lurid Miraculous Mandarin Suite and the Romanian French composer George Enescu's folk music inspired Romanian Rhapsody both make exciting and colorful demands on the orchestra.
Program Notes & Works
Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy after Shakespeare
Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456
Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
The Miraculous Mandarin was the third and last of Bartók’s major compositions for the theater, following his one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle and the ballet The Wooden Prince.
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Written in 1901 when he was not even 20 years old, the first Romanian Rhapsody became Enescu’s signature work.
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