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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Hahn returns to Symphony Hall as the soloist in Brahms’s Violin Concerto, and Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart’s Symphony No. 33 and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s "Archora," inspired by the primordial energy of her Icelandic homeland.
  • In an encore broadcast, Anne-Sophie Mutter is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Thomas Adès’s "Air," a work inspired by Sibelius. Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Sibelius’s "Luonnotar," with soprano Golda Schultz, and in his Symphony No. 5.
  • On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, melodious chamber pieces for piano and strings by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns take center stage, capped by a world premiere by Lowell Liebermann, all from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.
  • In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee conducts Unsuk Chin’s powerful tribute to Beethoven, "subito con forza," and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, as well as Mozart’s brooding Piano Concerto No. 20, with soloist Eric Lu in his Boston Symphony debut.
  • Andris Nelsons begins his 10th season as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and Arturs Maskats, as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder.
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of good music must be in want of a book.
  • Just like the rest of us, composers have always tried to find moments of peace, and they even wrote it into some of their music.
  • Susanna Mälkki guest conducts the BSO in Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Seong-Jin Cho is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9.
  • David Afkham conducts the BSO at Tanglewood in Mozart and Wagner, with Martin Helmchen as the soloist.
  • Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a concert version of Mozart's opera buffa classic “Così fan tutte.”