Oct 14 - 16 2021
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Still, Strauss, and Sibelius

Boston Symphony Orchestra: Still, Strauss, and Sibelius

Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall

Acclaimed Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili returns to Symphony Hall for performances of Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.

A violinist himself, Sibelius employed his distinctive, Finnish folk music-influenced style in this fiery and lyrical concerto, the final version of which was premiered under Richard Strauss’s direction in 1905. Strauss’s own Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten (“Woman Without a Shadow”) is a 1946 distillation of his fabulist 1919 opera; the BSO hasn’t played music from the opera since the 1960s under Erich Leinsdorf. The concert opens with the great American composer William Grant Still’s Threnody: In Memoriam Jan Sibelius, composed in 1965. Though from very different traditions, Still and Sibelius were known to admire one another’s music.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, violin

STILL Threnody: In Memory of Jan Sibelius
STRAUSS Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto

Admission Info

Phone: 6172661200

Dates & Times

2021/10/14 - 2021/10/16

Location Info

Symphony Hall

301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

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