Composer

Rafael Payare leads this brilliant Romantic-meets-Modern program that opens with Sofia Gubaidulina’s dynamic Fairytale Poem. Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings his dazzling style and theatricality to 20th-century composer Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto. The second half features Beethoven’s towering Symphony No. 3—an ode to heroism, revolution and freedom. The “Eroica” is considered by many to be the greatest of not just Beethoven’s symphonies, but the greatest symphony of all time.

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Beethoven's Eroica

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Music Center

Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts Mozart’s timeless Requiem, a work of great poignance and emotional depth. Also on the program is Sofia Gubaidulina’s eerie Viola Concerto featuring soloist Antoine Tamestit. The composer famously said, “The peculiar mysteriousness and veiled quality of the viola’s timbre has always been something of an acoustic enigma to me, and an object of rapture.”

The Mozart Requiem and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Viola Concerto

Lincoln Center

 Ojai Dawns

Besant Hill School

Morning Concert

Libbey Park

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Orchestral Series debut with Dmitri Shostakovich’s subtly sinister Cello Concerto No. 1. Shostakovich once told Sofia Gubaidulina that his wish for her was always to continue along her “mistaken path”, turning a critical remark from her Soviet censors into a virtue. Her poignant Fairytale Poem portrays a small piece of chalk in the hand of a child who draws “castles, gardens with pavilions and the sea with the sun on the pavement.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen & Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Davies Symphony Hall

Swan Lake is the quintessential ballet score — a resplendent fable of dreamlike transformation. Tchaikovsky’s ballet suite caps a program of musical storytelling that includes Gubaidulina’s whimsical Fairytale Poem and Adams’ brightly colored Slonimsky’s Earbox. Vilde Frang makes her instrument sing and soar in Stravinsky’s neoclassical Violin Concerto.

Sofia Gubaidulina

Composer

Events

11 - 12 May, 2024

Beethoven's Eroica · San Diego Symphony

23 - 28 May, 2024

The Mozart Requiem and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Viola Concerto · New York Philharmonic

Jun 7, 2024

Ojai Dawns · Ojai Music Festival

Jun 7, 2024

Morning Concert · Ojai Music Festival

13 - 15 Jun, 2024

Esa-Pekka Salonen & Sheku Kanneh-Mason · San Francisco Symphony

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