
September 24-25, 2022
Mahler's Resurrection Symphony
GUSTAV MAHLER: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection
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Quartet for the End of Time
Fri May 12, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Inspired by the Book of Revelations, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time was written while the composer was in a prisoner-of-war camp during the early days of World War II. Composed based on the instruments available to him at the time, each movement of the piece relates to the apocalyptic literature and the quartet’s fury unfolds alongside hauntingly beautiful patches of ethereal wonder. Opening the program is Bozza's complex and virtuosic duet for bassoons and Brahms' Horn Trio, his only dedicated chamber work for the horn.
EUGÈNE BOZZA:
Duettino pour deux bassons
JOHANNES BRAHMS:
Horn Trio
OLIVIER MESSIAEN:
Quartet for the End of Time
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Fri May 12, 2023 | 11:00 am
Sat May 13, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Louis Langrée, conductor
Courtney Bryan, piano and composer
Louis Langrée and the CSO end the 22/23 season with jazz-infused musical visions. New Orleans native Courtney Bryan, “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (The New York Times), premieres her new concerto. Milhaud's opening music evokes African folk mythology while Duke Ellington, who was both a prolific composer and famed jazz pianist, summons musical images of night creatures. Gershwin closes the program by dropping you into the sights and sounds of Parisian streets.
The CSO is grateful to Kari and Jonathan Ullman for their support of the Courtney Bryan Co-Commission.
DARIUS MILHAUD: La création du monde ("The Creation of the World")
COURTNEY BRYAN: Piano Concerto [World Premiere, (orchestral version), CSO Co-Commission]
DUKE ELLINGTON: Night Creature
GEORGE GERSHWIN: An American in Paris (ed. Clague)
GUSTAV MAHLER: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Pathetique
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE: Symphony No. 6
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto
RICHARD STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra ("Thus Spake Zarathustra")
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
CHARLES IVES: The Unanswered Question
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 6
MISSY MAZZOLI: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
JEAN SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto
BÉLA BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3
EDWARD ELGAR: Enigma Variations
CAROLINE SHAW: The Observatory [CSO Co-Commission]
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra
GUSTAV HOLST: The Planets
ETHEL SMYTH: On the Cliffs of Cornwall
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Violin Concerto
JEAN SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2