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MAGIC HAPPENS HERE!
Itzhak Perlman conducts and performs, Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven, the ASO premieres John Adams’s Dr. Atomic and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.
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Sparks fly on Opening Night! The incomparable Mr. Ax performs Beethoven’s lyrical and passionate Third
Piano Concerto, which the composer himself played at its 1803 premiere. Stokowski’s technicolor orchestration of Bach, and Brahms’s grand symphonic triumph supply their own fireworks.
September 25/27, 2008, 8pm (Thursday/Saturday)
September28, 2008, 3pm (Sunday)
BACH/STOKOWSKI: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1
ROBERT SPANO, conductor
EMANUEL AX, piano |
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An explosive opera that has captured the attention of the world with performances in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Chicago and New York, receives its Atlanta premiere. Maestro Spano brings a star-studded cast to join the expert forces of the ASO and ASO Chorus. The opera takes us into the minds of Oppenheimer and his colleagues as the events unfold leading up to the first atomic blast in Los Alamos.
November 21, 2008, 8pm (Friday)
November 23, 2008, 3pm (Sunday)
Thursday Subscribers attend Friday.
Saturday Subscribers choose Friday or Sunday
ADAMS:
Dr. Atomic
ROBERT SPANO, conductor
JESSICA RIVERA, soprano
MEREDITH ARWADY, contralto
THOMAS GLENN, tenor
JAMES MADDALENA, baritone
RICHARD PAUL FINK, baritone
ERIC OWENS, bass
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS
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HAYDN: Symphony No. 20 | MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 | TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 |
Two luminaries of The Viennese School are paired to crystalline effect. Mr. Wosner’s impeccable style is matched with the heartbreaking lyricism at the center of Mozart’s concerto, and Haydn’s work simmers with poetic grace. Strauss’s “Alpine” is a thrilling sonic adventure in the Alps worthy of its majestic subject.
January 29/31, 2009, 8pm (Thursday/Saturday)
February 1, 2009, 3pm (Sunday)
HAYDN: Symphony No. 20
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5
DONALD RUNNICLES, conductor
SHAI WOSNER, piano |
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MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto | SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 |
The colorful and magnetic Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg is a soloist unlike any other. She engages a treasure in Mendelssohn’s most popular and most frequently performed work. Tchaikovsky’s dramatic and passionate Fifth Symphony soars under ASO Assistant Conductor/League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellow Ms. Chen, an ebullient and focused maestro making her Classical Season debut.
February 19/21, 2009, 8pm (Thursday/Saturday)
February 22, 2009, 3pm (Sunday)
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2
MEI-ANN CHEN, conductor
NADJA SALERNO-SONNENBERG, violin |
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BACH: Violin Concerto | SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 3 | BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 |
As the iconic Mr. Perlman so artfully demonstrated two seasons ago, conducting and performing can go hand in hand with stirring results. He performs Bach’s deeply satisfying and sinuous concerto as only he can, and leads Schubert’s glistening and profound Third Symphony and Brahms’s final symphony, which continues to move and amaze audiences with its searing Romantic passion.
April 30 and May 2, 2009, 8pm (Thursday/Saturday)
May 3, 2009, 3pm (Sunday)
BACH: Violin Concerto
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 3
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4
ITZHAK PERLMAN, conductor & violin
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| STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms | MOZART: Requiem |
In his final concert of the Classical season, Robert Spano ingeniously couples Mozart’s haunting final utterance with Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms.
May 14/16, 2009, 8pm (Thursday/Saturday)
May 17, 2009, 3pm (Sunday)
STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms
MOZART: Requiem
ROBERT SPANO, conductor
NATHALIE PAULIN, soprano
STACEY RISHOI, mezzo-soprano
CHAD JOHNSON, tenor
GUS ANDREASSON, bass
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