Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series Opens With The Return Of Bernard Haitink And More
By: Gabrielle Sierra Jul. 28, 2009
The 44th season of Lincoln Center's Great Performers opens with the return of conductor Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) with three concerts of Schubert and Mahler in Avery Fisher Hall. The season opens on October 21 with Schubert's Symphony No. 5 and Mahler's Symphony No. 4, the latter with soprano Miah Persson as soloist. On October 23, Maestro Haitink leads a program of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, with soloists mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn in her Lincoln Center debut and tenor Robert Gambill. The final performance on October 25 will be of Mahler's Symphony No. 9, which they performed earlier this month in London in a stunning BBC Proms concert. Bernard Haitink and the LSO last appeared together in New York when they opened 2006-7 Great Performers season with an acclaimed traversal of the complete Beethoven symphonies.
Highlighting the fall season of Great Performers is a trio of events in New Visions, which explores music's unique relationship to visual art and language. The series begins with the world premiere production of the Lincoln Center commission Pictures Reframed, in which collaborators pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and video artist Robin Rhode re-imagine Musorgsky's monumental suite Pictures at an Exhibition (Alice Tully Hall, November 13, 14). In One Evening, director Katie Mitchell (whose staging of Virginia Woolf's Waves was a hit during last season's New Visions) examines how profoundly Schubert's music affected Samuel Beckett's writing, with tenor Mark Padmore singing the composer's Winterreise in English, and an actor reciting the playwright's poetry and prose (Gerald W. Lynch Theater, December 9-11). And Heiner Goebbels' Stifters Dinge is a captivating musical installation inspired by the nature writing of the 19th century Austrian author Adalbert Stifter (Park Avenue Armory, December 16-20).Programs and artists subject to change.Great Performers 2009-2010 Chronology
As of July 28, 2009Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 8:00
Avery Fisher Hall
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music director
Fervaal
D'Indy: Fervaal, Op. 40 (opera in concert)
Pre-concert talk at 6:45 by Leon Botstein, Avery Fisher Hall
Tickets: $30, 43, 60
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 8:00 (Fall Gala)
Avery Fisher Hall
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Miah Persson, soprano
Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major
Tickets: $38, 58, 70, 90
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 8:00
Avery Fisher Hall
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano (Lincoln Center debut)
Robert Gambill, tenor
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, ("Unfinished")
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Pre-concert lecture by Christopher H. Gibbs at 6:45, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Tickets: $38, 58, 70, 90
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 11:00
Walter Reade Theater
Hugo Wolf Quartett
Haydn: Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3 ("The Rider")
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 135
Tickets: $20
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 3:00
Avery Fisher Hall
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major
Pre-concert lecture by Bill McGlaughlin at 1:45, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Tickets: $38, 58, 70, 90
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:30
Walter Reade Theater
What Makes It Great?
Rob Kapilow, host
Natasha Paremski, piano
Debussy: Children's Corner
Tickets: $40
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 5:00
Alice Tully Hall
Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
Ivor Bolton, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello
Beethoven: Overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major ("Great")
Tickets: $45, 60, 75
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 8:00
Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 8:00
Alice Tully Hall
PICTURES REFRAMED (World premiere, Lincoln Center 50th anniversary commission)
LEIF OVE ANDSNES, piano
ROBIN RHODE, video artist
Schumann: Selections from Kinderscenen
Musorgsky: Selections from From Memories of Childhood
Thomas Larcher: New Work (ECHO Group commission) (world premiere)
Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (world premiere production)
Post-performance discussion with Leif Ove Andsnes and Robin Rhode, November 14
Sponsored by EMC².
Tickets: $50, 65, 80
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 11:00
Walter Reade Theater
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Bach: Suite in G minor, BWV 995
Metheny (arr. Vieaux): Five Songs in the Form of a Baroque Suite
Bach: Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998
Tickets: $20
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3:00
Avery Fisher Hall
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music director
The Remains of Romanticism
Fuchs: Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 9
Hausegger: Wieland der Schmied, symphonic poem
Goetz: Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 22
Thuille: Romantic Overture, Op. 16
Strauss: Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 12
Pre-concert talk at 1:45 by Leon Botstein, Avery Fisher Hall
Tickets: $30, 43, 60
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 5:00
Alice Tully Hall
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Mozart: Piano Sonata in D major, K.284
George Benjamin: Piano Figures
Stockhausen: Klavierstück No. 9
Beethoven: Eroica Variations, Op. 35
Tickets: $45, 60, 75
Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 5:00
Alice Tully Hall
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano
Warren Jones, piano
Brahms: Seven Lieder
Meine Liebe ist grün
Nachtwandler
über die Heide
O komme, holde Sommernacht
Salome
Däm'rung senkte sich von oben
Versunken
Wolf: Six Lieder on poems by Mörike
Auf einer Wanderung
Auf ein altes Bild
Um Mitternacht
Begegnung
Zur Warnung
Er ist's
Hahn: Six Mélodies
Le souvenir d'avoir chanté
Seule
A Chloris
Quand je fus pris au pavillon
L'heure exquise
La chère blessure
Mahler: Six Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt
Das irdische Leben
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Rheinlegendchen
Lob des hohen Verstandes
Tickets: $50, 60, 70
Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 11:00
Walter Reade Theater
Mikhail Simonyan, violin (New York recital debut)
Alexei Podkorytov, piano
Tchaikovsky: Méditation in D minor, Op. 42, No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Valse-scherzo in C major, Op. 34
Grieg: Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13
Ravel: Tzigane
Tickets: $20
Monday, December 7, 2009 at 7:30
Walter Reade Theater
What Makes It Great?
Rob Kapilow, host
Eric Ruske, horn
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Brahms: Trio in E-flat major for Horn, Violin, and Piano
Tickets: $40
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8:00
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 8:00
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 8:00
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
One Evening (U.S. premiere)
Katie Mitchell, director
Mark Padmore, tenor
Andrew West, piano
Vicki Mortimer, design
Paule Constable, lighting design
Michael Symmons Roberts, English translation
Co-production by Aldeburgh Music and South Bank Centre
Tickets: $40, 60
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 8:00
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 8:00
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:00 and 10:00
Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 3:00, 7:00, and 10:00
Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 2:00
Park Avenue Armory, Drill Hall
Stifters Dinge (U.S. premiere)
Heiner Goebbels, conception, music, and director
Klaus Grünberg, set design, lighting, and video
Hubert Machnik, programming
Willi Bopp, sound design
Matthias Mohr, assistant
Presented in association with Park Avenue Armory
Originally produced by Théâtre de Vidy, Spielzeit'europa/Berliner Festspiele, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, schauspielfrankfurt, T & M-Théâtre de Genevilliers/CDN, and Pour-cent culturel Migros. Co-commissioned by Artangel London.
Tickets: $55
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 11:00
Walter Reade Theater
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Pei-Yao Wang, piano
Works by Rossini, Fauré, Brahms, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky
Tickets: $20
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 2:00
Alice Tully Hall
PIETER WISPELWEY, cello
Paolo Giacometti, piano
All-Brahms program
Violin Sonata No. 1, arranged for cello in D major, Op. 78
Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Tickets: $45, 60, 75
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 5:00
Alice Tully Hall
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Spiri, piano
Schumann: Seven Lieder on poems by Friedrich Rückert
Liebster, deine Worte stehlen
Aus den östlichen Rosen
Jasminenstrauch
Die Blume der Ergebung
Lieder der Braut I
Lieder der Braut II
Mein schöner Stern!
Schumann: Three Lieder from Myrthen
Hauptmanns Weib
Hochländisches Wiegenlied
Die Hochländer-Witwe
Schumann: Maria Stuart Lieder
Caamaño: Two cantares galaico-portugueses del siglo XIII
Granados: La maja dolorosa
Gianneo: Six coplas
Rodrigo: Four madrigales amatorios
Tickets: $50, 60, 70
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8:00
Avery Fisher Hall
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music director
An American Biography: The Music of Henry Cowell
All-Cowell program
Hymn and Fuguing Tune, No. 3
Atlantis
Variations for Orchestra
Symphony No. 2, "Anthropos"
Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra
Symphony No. 11, "Seven Rituals of Music"
Pre-concert talk at 6:45 by Leon Botstein, Avery Fisher Hall
Tickets: $30, 43, 60
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 11:00
Walter Reade Theater
Fauré Quartett
Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor
Brahms: Quartet No. 1 in G minor
Tickets: $20
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 8:00
Alice Tully Hall
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
All-Chopin program
Impromptu in F-sharp major
Ballade in A-flat major
Fantasy in F minor
Two Nocturnes, Op. 27: No. 1 in C-sharp minor and No. 2 in D-flat major
Scherzo in C-sharp minor
Twenty-four Preludes
Pre-concert lecture by Alan Walker at 6:45, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Tickets: $45, 60, 75
Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 2:00
Walter Reade Theater
Great Pianists: Chopin on Film
Program 1: Arthur Rubinstein AND SILENT FILMS
1964: Arthur Rubinstein Moscow recital of Chopin's Barcarolle, selected Etudes, and Polonaise, Op. 53. 1974: Rubinstein performs Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn conducting. Silent films of Vladimir Horowitz, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Robert Casadesus playing a Chopin Etude in real time, as well as in slow motion, directed by Louta Nouneberg.
Presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tickets: $15
Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 4:00
Walter Reade Theater
Great Pianists: Chopin on Film
Program 2: BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Chopin's Andante Spianato, Grand Polonaise, Ballade No. 1, Berceuse, Op. 57, and three Mazurkas, 1962, RAI.
Alfred Cortot plays Waltz No. 9, Op. 69, No. 1 ("L'adieu"); 1944, Ina.
Presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tickets: $15
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 6:30
Walter Reade Theater
Great Pianists: Chopin on Film
Program 3: MARTHA ARGERICH, KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN, AND MAURIZIO POLLINI
International Chopin Competition winners. Pollini plays two Preludes, Argerich performs Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF conducted by Franco Mannino, and Zimerman performs the four Ballades and Barcarolle. Ina, Unitel.
Presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tickets: $15
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 8:30
Walter Reade Theater
Great Pianists: Chopin on Film
Program 4: A SONG TO REMEMBER
1945 Hollywood feature film; Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, and Stephen Bekassy, with soundtrack of Chopin works performed by pianist José Iturbi. Directed by Charles Vidor.
Introduced by Benita Eisler.
Presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tickets: $15
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 8:00
Avery Fisher Hall
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliées, méditation symphonique
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Tickets: $35, 56, 60, 75
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 8:00
Avery Fisher Hall
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major
Theo Verbey: Conciso
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Pre-concert lecture by Walter Frisch at 6:45, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Tickets: $35, 56, 60, 75
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 11:00
Walter Reade Theater
David Greilsammer, piano
Gates
Rameau: Gavotte et six doubles, part 1
Ligeti: Musica ricercata, No. 7
Mozart: Suite in C major, K.399, part 1
Satie: Gnossienne No. 3
Monteverdi (arrangement): Aria from Orfeo, part 1
Janá?ek: Piano Sonata, "The Presentiment"
Scarlatti: Sonata in D major
Adams: China Gates
Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor
Janá?ek: Piano Sonata, "The Death"
Monteverdi (arrangement): Aria from Orfeo, part 2
Satie: Gnossienne No. 2
Mozart: Suite in C major, K.399, part 2
Ligeti: Musica ricercata, No. 5
Rameau: Gavotte et six doubles, part 2
Tickets: $20
Monday, February 22, 2010 at 7:30
Walter Reade Theater
What Makes It Great?
Rob Kapilow, host
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Todd Palmer, clarinet
Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Tickets: $40
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 8:00
Avery Fisher Hall
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music director
After the Thaw
Alexander Lokshin: Symphony No. 4, "Sinfonia Stretta"
Boris Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Boris Tishchenko: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67
Boris Tchaikovsky: Music for Orchestra
Pre-concert talk at 6:45 by Leon Botstein, Avery Fisher Hall
Tickets: $30, 43, 60
Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 5:00
Alice Tully Hall
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Wolf: Four Lieder on poems by Mörike
Gesang Weylas
Heimweh
Auf eine Christblume II
Lied vom Winde
Schubert: Nine Lieder
An Sylvia
Die Einsiedelei
Verklärung
Freiwilliges Versinken
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus
Himmelsfunken
Ständchen
Die Sterne
Auf der Bruck
Tickets: $50, 60, 70
Monday, March 1, 2010, at 8:00
Avery Fisher Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Thomas Zehetmair, violin
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
Tickets: $35, 56, 60, 75
Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 3:00
Avery Fisher Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Alexander Toradze, piano
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor
Tickets: $35, 56, 60, 75
Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 11:00
Walter Reade Theater
Leon McCawley, piano
Barber: Nocturne (Homage to John Field)
Chopin: Sonata in B-flat minor
Chopin: Nocturne in C-sharp minor
Barber: Sonata
Tickets: $20
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:00
Alice Tully Hall
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
All-Chopin program
Three Nocturnes
Two Polonaises, Op. 40: No. 1 in A major, No. 2 in C minor
Sonata in B-flat minor
Mazurkas Op. 7, Nos. 1 in B-flat major, 2 in A minor, and 3 in F minor
Mazurka in C-sharp minor
Waltz in A-flat major
Scherzo in B-flat minor
Post-concert discussion with Garrick Ohlsson
Tickets: $45, 60, 75
Monday, March 22, 2010 at 7:30
Walter Reade Theater
What Makes It Great?
Rob Kapilow, host
Sally Wilfert, soprano
Michael Winther, tenor
Gershwin Songs
Tickets: $40
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 8:00
Alice Tully Hall
Then and Now
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Iván Fischer, conductor
All-Beethoven program
Symphony No. 2 in D major
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major ("Eroica")
Pre-concert lecture at 6:45, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Tickets: $35, 56, 60, 75
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 8:00
Alice Tully Hall
Beethoven Then and Now
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Iván Fischer, conductor
All-Beethoven program
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Symphony No. 8 in F major
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Tickets: $35, 56, 60, 75
Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8:00
Alice Tully Hall
Beethoven Then and Now
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor
All-Beethoven program
Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major
Symphony No. 7 in A major
Tickets: $35, 56, 60, 75Sunday, March 28, 2010 from 1:00 to 2:30
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Beethoven Then and Now
PANEL DISCUSSION: ON INTERPRETING BEETHOVEN
Ara Guzelimian, moderator
FREESunday, March 28, 2010 at 3:00
Avery Fisher Hall
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor
Lisa Milne, soprano
Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano
Jorma Silvasti, tenor
Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass
The Dessoff Choirs
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