SYMPHONIC DANCES
SYMPHONIC DANCES
JOSEP MOLINA
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday , April 6 , 2018 , 8pm Sunday , April 8 , 2018 , 3pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday , April 7 , 2018 , 8pm
Markus Stenz , Principal Guest Conductor Arabella Steinbacher , violin
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No . 1 in C Major , op . 21 Adagio molto - Allegro con brio Andante cantabile con moto Menuetto : Allegro molto e vivace Finale : Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace
Erich Korngold Violin Concerto in D Major , op . 35 Moderato nobile Romance : Andante Finale : Allegro assai vivace
INTERMISSION
About the Artists
Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz is principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra , principal guest conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and conductorin-residence of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra . He has appeared at many of the world ’ s major opera houses and international festivals .
Until the summer of 2014 , he was Gürzenich-Kapellmeister and general music director of the City of Cologne ,
Arabella Steinbacher
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances , op . 45 Non allegro Andante con moto ( Tempo di valse ) Lento assai - Allegro vivace
The concert will end at approximately 10 pm on Friday and Saturday and 5 pm on Sunday .
PRESENTING SPONSORS : and principal guest conductor of the Hallé . His previous positions have included artistic director and chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony , music director of the Montepulciano Festival and principal conductor of the London Sinfonietta .
Trained at the School of Music in Cologne under Volker Wangenheim and at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa , Stenz has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Silberne Stimmgabel ( Silver Tuning Fork ) of the state of North Rhein / Westphalia .
Recent engagements have taken Stenz all over the world , from São Paulo to
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Shanghai , conducting premieres and world premieres , including the German premiere of a cello concerto by Pascal Dusapin with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and an orchestral work by Dieter Ammann with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich in June 2016 .
Internationally , Stenz ’ s touring schedule takes him to the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the Bern Symphony Orchestra , the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and Leeds and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra on a tour throughout Japan performing Beethoven ’ s Symphony No . 9 .
His extensive discography was recently enlarged by the addition of the Dutch premiere of K . A . Hartmann ’ s Simplicius Simplicissimus ( Challenge Classics ); the complete Mahler symphonies ( Oehms Classics ), which was selected among the Quarterly Critic ’ s Choice by the German Record Critics ’ Award Association ; and various Schoenberg recordings with the Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne , which earned the 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Best Choral Album .
Markus Stenz last appeared with the BSO in October 2017 , conducting selections from Wagner ’ s Parsifal .
Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Steinbacher is celebrated as one of today ’ s leading violinists , since giving her outstanding debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Sir Neville Marriner in Paris in 2004 .
Known for her extraordinarily varied repertoire , Steinbacher plays all major Classical and Romantic violin concertos , as well as those of Bartók , Berg , Glazunov , Katchaturian , Milhaud , Prokofiev , Schnittke , Shostakovich , Stravinsky , Szymanowski , Hindemith , Hartmann and Sofia Gubaidulina ’ s Offertorium , to name a few .
In Germany , Steinbacher frequently plays with all major orchestra , including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the Staatskapelle Dresden , the WDR
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