Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Weekend

Thursday, March 23, 10:30 a.m. (Open Rehearsal)
Thursday, March 23
Friday, March 24, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 25
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
BERLIOZ Le Corsaire Overture
Matthias PINTSCHER Cello Concerto
(world premiere; BSO co-commission)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

American cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins French conductor François-Xavier Roth for the world premiere of the BSO-commissioned Cello Concerto by German composer Matthias Pintscher, with whom Weilerstein has collaborated in the past. Pintscher, also a noted conductor, is a major figure in classical music in both Europe and the U.S. Opening the program is Hector Berlioz’s alternately romantic and swashbuckling Le Corsaire Overture, which, as was often the composer’s practice, took shape from earlier sketches. The title is an incidental reference to James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover (“Le Corsaire rouge”). Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, is his only explicitly programmatic symphony, a fundamentally cheerful work illustrating a sojourn in the countryside.

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