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July 5th, 8pm: Opening Night at Tanglewood, with Daniil Trifonov!
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Daniil Trifonov, piano
All-Rachmaninoff Program:
Piano Concerto No. 3
Symphonic Dances
July 6th, 7pm: An All-Beethoven Concert at Tanglewood with Bronfman and Nelsons
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
ALL-BEETHOVEN program:
Leonore Overture No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 3
Symphony No. 5
July 11th, 8pm: Star-Crossed Lovers at Tanglewood
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Concert Theatre Works
Bill Barclay, director
Actors
Sergei PROKOFIEV selections from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
July 12th, 8pm: Ravel, the BSO, and Seong-Jin Cho at Tanglewood
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Claude DEBUSSY Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Maurice RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
DEBUSSY La Mer
July 13th, 7pm: The BSO Performs Sibelius, with Adés and Kuusisto
Thomas Adés, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Gabriella SMITH Tumblebird Contrails
Jean SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
July 18th, 8pm: “One Night Only,” with Kelli O’Hara and Sutton Foster at Tanglewood
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Sutton Foster
Kelli O'Hara
Broadway Selections
July 19th, 8pm: Puccini’s “Tosca,” Live from Tanglewood!
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Kristine Opolais, soprano (Tosca)
Seok Jong Baek, tenor (Cavaradossi)
Bryn Terfel, baritone (Scarpia)
Patrick Carfizzi, bass-baritone (Sacristan)
Neal Ferreira, tenor (Spoletta)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
Giacomo PUCCINI Tosca
July 20th, 7pm: Wild Obsession: Berlioz, Prokofiev, and Yuja Wang
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
Sergei PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2
Hector BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
July 25th, 8pm: María Dueñas Plays Mendelssohn in her BSO Debut at Tanglewood
Andris Nelsons, conductor
María Dueñas, violin
J.S. BACH Air, from Orchestral Suite No. 3
Gustav MAHLER Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Felix MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
MENDELSSOHN Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
July 26th, 8pm: A John Williams World Premiere with Emanuel Ax at Tanglewood
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
John WILLIAMS Piano Concerto (world premiere)
Gustav MAHLER Symphony No. 1
July 27th, 7pm: Lang Lang and the BSO Play Saint-Saëns at Tanglewood
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
Gabriela ORTIZ La Calaca, for string orchestra
Camille SAINT-SÄENS Piano Concerto No. 2
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
August 1st, 8pm: Yuja Wang Performs Prokofiev at Tanglewood!
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Leonard Weiss, and Yiran Zhao, conductors
Yuja Wang, piano
Bedřich SMETANA Vltava (The Moldau), from Ma Vlast
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Octet for Winds
Maurice RAVEL Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé
Sergei PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2
SMETANA Vysehrad (The High Castle), from Ma Vlast
August 2nd, 8pm: Elim Chan’s Conducts Rachmaninoff and Korngold at Tanglewood
Elim Chan, conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Erich KORNGOLD Violin Concerto
Sergei RACHMONNOFF Symphony No. 2
August 3rd, 7pm: “Beethoven for Three” at Tanglewood
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Antoine Tamestit, viola
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Emanuel Ax, piano
All-BEETHOVEN program:
Leonore Overture No. 3 (trans. Shai Wosner)
Trio No. 4 in B-flat for piano, violin, and cello, Op. 11
Symphony No. 3, Eroica (trans. Shai Wosner)
August 8th, 8pm: Orozco-Estrada Conducts Dvořák’s “New World” at Tanglewood
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
Édouard LALO Symphonie espagnole
Antonín DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World
August 9th, 8pm: Lockhart Leads the Pops in John Williams’ Film Night!
Boston Pops Orchestra
John Williams, curator
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Film Night!
August 10th, 7pm: Yo-Yo Ma, Samy Rachid, and Pépin’s “Un Monde nouveau” at Tanglewood
Samy Rachid, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Camille PÉPIN Un Monde nouveau (American premiere)
Camille SAINT-SÄENS Cello Concerto No. 1
Felix MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish
August 15th, 8pm: Slobodeniouk, Queyras, and the BSO at Tanglewood
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Caroline SHAW Entr’acte, for string orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme, for cello and orchestra
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
August 16th, 8pm: Handler’s Boston Symphony Debut with Hadelich, at Tanglewood
Anna Handler, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Johannes BRAHMS Tragic Overture
Robert SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
August 17th, 7pm: Thibaudet and Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto, at Tanglewood
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
William Grant STILL Threnody (In Memory of Jan Sibelius)
Franz LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2
Jean SIBELIUS Valse triste
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 3
August 22nd, 8pm: Keith Lockhart’s 30th Anniversary Celebration at Tanglewood!
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Keith Lockhart 30th Anniversary Celebration program
August 23rd, 8pm: Yamada Conducts Holst’s “The Planets” and Poulenc’s “Gloria” with González, at Tanglewood
Kazuki Yamada, conductor
Raquel González, soprano
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
Francis POULENC Gloria
Gustav HOLST The Planets
August 24th, 7pm: Zubin Mehta Leads the BSO in Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Zubin Mehta, conductor
James Burton, conductor (Simon)
Federica Lombardi, soprano
Isabel Signoret, mezzo-soprano
Pene Pati, tenor
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Carlos SIMON Words and Prayers of My Fathers (world premiere; BSO commission)
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9