Apr 26 2020
Weekend Concert Series: Christopher Taylor CANCELLED

Weekend Concert Series: Christopher Taylor CANCELLED

Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven (arr. Franz Liszt), Symphony No. 3, Eroica (1803, arr. 1864)
Ludwig van Beethoven (arr. Franz Liszt), Symphony No. 4 (1806, arr. 1864)

Isabella Stewart Gardner idolized Beethoven. The life mask of the composer (below) is still on view at her Museum. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, pianist Christopher Taylor will scale the Everest of piano literature, works Vladimir Horowitz called simply "the greatest works for the piano."

Christopher Taylor’s historic survey of Liszt’s Beethoven symphony transcriptions takes on the titanic Eroica and its gentler, but no less revolutionary cousin, the Fourth, which Robert Schumann described as “a slender Grecian maiden between two Nordic giants” (i.e. the Third and Fifth symphonies). These transcriptions are masterpieces in themselves, and ideal chances to hear this music as if for the first time.

She was also a great admirer of Liszt, and was in fact travelling to meet with him when he died suddenly. Gardner attended his funeral, supported his grieving family, and cast the first shovel of earth onto his coffin. These astounding transcriptions by Liszt are not fantasias on the original material but rather scrupulously faithful avatars of Beethoven's original scores. They provide a laser-sharp look inside the workings of the music, illuminating their structures as if lit from within. This is the ideal way to hear Beethoven's seismic masterworks in a completely fresh way.

Admission Info

Tickets are required and include Museum admission. Choose from two seating sections. See inside back cover for details.
SECTION A: FLOOR LEVEL AND FIRST BALCONY
Adults $36, seniors $33, members $24, students and children ages 7–17 $15 (children under 7 not admitted).
SECTION B: SECOND AND THIRD BALCONIES
Adults $31, seniors $28, members $19, students and children ages 7–17 $15 (children under 7 not admitted).

Additional time info:

CANCELLED

Dates & Times

2020/04/26 - 2020/04/26

Location Info

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115

Parking Info

A limited number of free and metered spots are available near the Gardner Museum. We also offer discounted parking at the next-door Simmons School of Management Garage and are walking distance from the lots at the Museum of Fine Arts.

SIMMONS UNIVERSITY PARKING
Discounted* parking is available on Levels P1-P3 of the Simmons School of Management (SOM) Garage, at 86 Avenue Louis Pasteur.

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS PARKING
Three parking lots are available at the Museum of Fine Arts, on Museum Road accessible from Huntington Avenue or from the Fenway.