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BEETHOVEN
EROICA SYMPHONY
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, September 21, 2018, 8 pm
Sunday, September 23, 2018, 3 pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday, September 22, 2018, 8 pm
Marin Alsop, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Members of the BSO OrchKids
Joseph Schwantner
New Morning for the World
(Daybreak of Freedom)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43
Garrick Ohlsson
INTERMISSION
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 55, “Eroica”
Allegro con brio
Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
Scherzo: Allegro vivace
Finale: Allegro molto
The concert will end at approximately 10 pm on Friday and Sunday
and 5 pm on Saturday.
PRESENTING SPONSORS:
About the Artists
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7.
Garrick Ohlsson
Since his triumph as
winner of the 1970
Chopin International
Piano Competition,
pianist Garrick
Ohlsson has established himself
worldwide as a musician of magisterial
interpretive and technical prowess.
Although long regarded as one of the
world’s leading exponents of the music
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of Frederic Chopin, Ohlsson commands
an enormous repertoire, which ranges
over the entire piano literature. A
student of the late Claudio Arrau,
Ohlsson has come to be noted for his
masterly performances of the works
of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert,
as well as the Romantic repertoire. To
date, he has at his command more than
80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and
Mozart to works of the 21 st century,
many commissioned for him.
A frequent guest with the orchestras
in Australia, Ohlsson has recently
visited Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne,
Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart as well
as the New Zealand Symphony in
Wellington and Auckland. An avid
chamber musician, Ohlsson has
collaborated with the Cleveland,
Emerson and Tokyo string quartets,
and this fall will tour with the Takács
Quartet. Together with violinist Jorja
Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier,
he is a founding member of the San
Francisco-based FOG Trio. Passionate
about singing and singers, Ohlsson has
appeared in recital with such legendary
artists as Magda Olivero, Jessye
Norman and Ewa Podleś.
Ohlsson can be heard on the
Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal,
Angel, BMG, Delos, Hänssler,
Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion and
Virgin Classics labels. His ten-disc set
of the complete Beethoven Sonatas,
for Bridge Records, has garnered
critical acclaim, including a Grammy
for the third volume. His recording of
Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3, with
the Atlanta Symphony and Robert
Spano, was released in 2011. In the fall
of 2008 the English label Hyperion re-
released his 16-disc set of the Complete
Works of Chopin followed in 2010
by all the Brahms piano variations,
Goyescas by Enrique Granados and
music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes.
Most recently on that label are
Scriabin’s Complete Poèmes, Smetana
Czech Dances and etudes by Debussy,
Bartók and Prokofiev. The latest CDs
in his ongoing association with Bridge
Records are the Complete Scriabin
Sonatas, “Close Connections,” a recital
of 20 th -century pieces and two CDs of
works by Liszt. In recognition of the
Chopin bicentenary in 2010, Ohlsson
was featured in a documentary The
Art of Chopin, co-produced by Polish,
French, British and Chinese television
stations. Most recently, both Brahms
concertos and Tchaikovsky’s Second
Piano Concerto were released on live
performance recordings with the
Melbourne and Sydney symphonies on
their own recording labels, and Ohlsson
was featured on Dvořák’s Piano
Concerto in the Czech Philharmonic’s
recordings of the composer’s complete