summer 2013 - Boston Symphony Orchestra

highlights of the 2013 tanglewood season
The 2013 Boston Symphony Orchestra season at Tanglewood
opens with an all-Tchaikovsky program led by Rafael Frühbeck
de Burgos and featuring renowned violinist Joshua Bell (7/5).
Maestro Frühbeck de Burgos continues the weekend with
Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 (7/6), and returns to lead the BSO with
Lynn Harrell performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 (7/14). BSO
Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink makes a welcome return
to Tanglewood for a program pairing Mozart’s Violin Concerto
No. 5 and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony (8/17), then concludes the
BSO season with the traditional performance of Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 9 (8/25).
Other favorite guest conductors on the BSO podium this
summer include Vladimir Jurowski leading Jean-Yves Thibaudet
in Liszt’s Totentanz for piano and orchestra (7/19); Christoph
Eschenbach as conductor-pianist in an all-Mozart program with
soprano Christine Schäfer (7/26) and leading Garrick Ohlsson in
Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (7/28); and Stéphane Denève
conducting Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Leif Ove
Andsnes and Poulenc’s Stabat Mater with the Tanglewood
Festival Chorus (8/2). With Charles Dutoit conducting,
Lang Lang performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 on a
program also including Ravel’s complete Daphnis et Chloé (8/3);
on the next afternoon, Yo-Yo Ma joins Maestro Dutoit and the
BSO for Dvořák’s Cello Concerto (8/4). Christoph von Dohnányi
conducts three concerts this summer, with violinist Gil Shaham
(8/9), pianist Yefim Bronfman (8/10), and pianist Emanuel Ax
(8/18). Christian Zacharias is both conductor and pianist for an
all-Beethoven program including the Piano Concerto No. 2 and
Pastoral Symphony (8/11).
Other Shed highlights include a one-time-only Tanglewood
performance with the BSO playing the score to the classic film
West Side Story as a newly remastered print is displayed on
large high-definition screens (7/13), and The Goat Rodeo Show
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