Andris Nelsons conducts Bach, Holst, Montgomery, and Williams with Lorelei Ensemble and Awadagin Pratt, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Andris Nelsons opens the new BSO season with A Toast!, which John Williams originally wrote in 2014 to welcome Nelsons to the BSO. American pianist Awadagin Pratt, making his BSO debut, performs a work written for him, American composer Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds, and J.S. Bach’s Concerto in A. English composer Gustav Holst’s orchestral showpiece The Planets ranges from Venus’ sweet lyricism to Mars’ propulsive energy.
Performance Details
Sep 22, 2022, 7:30pm EDT
Program Notes & Works
A Toast!
Piano Concerto in A, BWV 1055
Rounds, for piano and string orchestra
The Planets
The conception of a suite of seven tone poems on the astrological implications of the planets came to Holst partly from reading Alan Leo’s What is a Horoscope and How is it Cast.
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