As part of our season-long look at the works of Robert Schumann, Artistic Partner Roberto Abbado and acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss survey the composer's lesser-known but no less magnificent works for piano and orchestra. The program also includes a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky and Schumann's exuberant Overture, Scherzo and Finale.
Schumann's 4th Symphony
03/19/10 - 03/21/10
Continuing our celebration of the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth, this program features two of the composer's orchestral works. SPCO violinist Dale Barltrop will be featured in Schumann's rarely performed Violin Concerto, followed by Schumann's 4th Symphony, conducted by Roberto Abbado. Schumann wrote his 4th Symphony in 1841 and then published a significantly revised version ten years later, which the SPCO performs here.
Schumann's 2nd Symphony
03/25/10
Artistic Partner Roberto Abbado continues our survey of Schumann in the composer's 200th anniversary year with the overture to his rarely performed opera Genoveva and his Second Symphony. SPCO Principal Cellist Ronald Thomas plays Haydn's masterful D-major Cello Concerto in between.
Ades and Berlioz
04/2/10 - 04/3/10
British composer and conductor Thomas Adčs, one of the most in-demand living composers of our time, will make his SPCO debut conducting two of his pieces, including Three Studies after Couperin, a piece based on the keyboard music of 18th century French composer François Couperin.
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