 |
November 8, 2003
The final concert of The Beethoven Experience commences with Symphony No. 8 and comes to a triumphant conclusion with the final chords of the mighty Symphony No. 9. Multiple curtain calls are in order for Maestro Maazel, soloists Christine Brewer (soprano), Nancy Maultsby (mezzo-soprano), Michael Schade (tenor), and Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass), members of the Westminster Symphonic Choir (directed by Joseph Flummerfelt), and members of the Orchestra. "A yearly cycle of Beethoven's symphonies," Lorin Maazel said, "is as vital to us as the yearly revolution of the earth about the sun. No other composer has been so constructive, so affirmative."
|
|
|
|
|
November 4, 2003
The third week of The Beethoven Experience opens with a performance of Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor," with piano soloist Jonathan Biss. The program also included the Leonore Overture No. 2 and Symphony No. 7.
|
|
|
|
October 31, 2003
Pianist Andreas Haefliger joins the Orchestra in performances of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, on a program which also included performances of the Fidelio Overture and Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral." About Beethoven, Lorin Maazel has written: "The man I feel striding through the music [is] a man who adored life, a man of great wit, garrulous, amorous, stubborn, gregarious."
|
|
|
|
October 28, 2003
The third program of The Beethoven Experience included performances of the Fourth and Fifth symphonies and Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring the 24-year-old Italian piano virtuoso Gianluca Cascioli.
|
|
|
|
October 24, 2003
The second program of The Beethoven Experience included performances of the Egmont Overture, Symphony No 3, "Eroica," and Piano Concerto No. 1, and featured piano soloist Christian Zacharias. "We have a different soloist for each of the piano concerti," Lorin Maazel said. "Some are more extroverted, some more pensive in their interpretations, and I've tried to select the soloist that by nature and temperament seems most suitable to the work at hand."
|
|
|
|
October 21, 2003
Maestro Lorin Maazel heads on to the stage to launch The Beethoven Experience, a three-week exploration of the complete symphonies and piano concertos. The first program of the cycle included performances of the First and Second symphonies, which Lorin Maazel described as "wry, lyrical, passionate, quirky, genial, rugged, full of cosmic laughter, a homage to the past, an indifferent acknowledgment of the present, an intense challenge to the future," and the Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring solo pianist Rudolf Buchbinder.
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 2-4, 2003
The Orchestra and soloists, under Mr. Maazel, perform Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette, as part of the Philharmonic's two-year celebration of the composer's bicentennial.
|
|
|
|
September 18, 2003
Stephen Hartke's Symphony No. 3, a New York Philharmonic Commission, receives its world premiere under Lorin Maazel's baton. The work, a setting of the text of an English medieval poem, "The Ruin," featured the Philharmonic debut of the Hilliard Ensemble who were soloists in the work.
|
|
|
|
September 17, 2003
Opening Night of the 2003-04 season featured a program of Verdi arias, sung by bass Samuel Ramey, plus Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.
|
|
 |
|
|
