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SCHUBERT'S THE GREAT

January 24-25, 2020 | Music Hall

Encounter Schubert’s once-lost masterpiece, a cornerstone of orchestral music. A cello concerto by one of today's most exciting composers completes the program.

Program

RAVEL: Pavane pour une infante défunte
UNSUK CHIN: Cello Concerto
SCHUBERT: Symphony in C Major, The Great

Artists

Simone Young, conductor
Alban Gerhardt, cello

Venue

Music Hall

Ticket Prices

$14-$130

Concert Duration

About 2 hours, 5 minutes with intermission

Series

This concert is part of Series 1

What's Interesting

  • Like the final symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler and Dvořák, Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 is an awe-inspiring revelation.
  • Schubert sketched his Great symphony just one year after Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.”
  • Guest artist Alban Gerhardt performs a cello concerto written for him and that he premiered at the BBC Proms. By turns frenetic, passionate and ethereal, the concerto was written by the exciting composer Unsuk Chin, who “has a knack for binding together seemingly irreconcilable extremes” (The New Yorker).

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