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Berg, Strauss and Mahler
BSO presents trio of composers
Guest soprano Renee Fleming
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra has no shortage of fantastic collaborative performances this season, with February 11, 2010’s presentation of Berg, Strauss and Mahler being no different. Conducted by James Levine and featuring renowned soprano Renee Fleming, the concert will feature works by these three influential conductors.
Levine, now in his sixth season as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has made a habit of balancing operatic, orchestral and choral classics as well as including a good degree of modern pieces. Ms. Fleming has come to be known as “the people’s diva”, a nickname bestowed upon her because of her ability to charm audiences wherever she goes. The two-time Grammy winner’s voice has been described as “liquid gold” and her performances, no matter how classical or erudite, seem to always include an element of warmth and personalization.
February 11th’s collaboration between the two and the Boston Symphony Orchestra will feature Richard Strauss’s beautiful Four Last Songs. The piece was written for the composer’s wife in 1943 as a late-in-life love poem. Fleming will perform a solo in this piece as well as in the final movement of Mahler’s effusive Symphony No. 4. The two composers were contemporaries of one another and got along congenially. The third composer featured in the night will be Alban Berg, whose Three Pieces for Orchestra were heavily influenced by Mahler.
For more information about or to purchase tickets for Berg, Strauss and Mahler, please visit www.bso.org.