François-Xavier Roth conducts Webern, Bartók and Stravinsky featuring pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard
When:
Friday, Jan 12, 2018 1:30p -
3:30p
Where:
Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-4511
Admission:
$32
Categories:
Art, Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/88624
In his second week of concerts, François-Xavier Roth works with outstanding French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Bartók's percussive, glittering Piano Concerto No. 1, in which the composer's love for Central European folk music merges imaginatively with early 20th-century modernism. Music by two close Bartók contemporaries fills out the program. Anton Webern's lush twelve-minute, single-movement Passacaglia from 1908 predates the crystalline miniatures for which he is best-known. Composed the following year is Stravinsky's The Firebird, the breathtakingly magical score for the Ballets Russes that catapulted the 27-year-old composer to fame and which, more than a century later, remains one of his most beloved pieces.