Tanglewood week 2 schedule, July 10 – 16, 2009

Program details, main schedule, for the 2nd week of the 2009 season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.

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Friday, July 10, 6pm, Ozawa Hall (Prelude Concert)
MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ALEXANDER VELINZON AND JULIANNE LEE, violins
ROBERT BARNES, viola
MIHAIL JOJATU, cello

DVORÁK – Terzetto for two violins and viola
MARTINU – String Trio (No. 1 or 2, to be announced)
BEETHOVEN – String Quartet

Friday, July 10, 7:15-7:45pm, Shed
“THIS WEEK AT TANGLEWOOD”
Martin Bookspan, host
Guests to include James Morris

Friday, July 10, 8:30pm, Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT, conductor
EMANUEL AX, piano

NIELSEN – Helios Overture
BEETHOVEN – Piano Concerto No. 4
BRAHMS – Symphony No. 4

Saturday, July 11, 10:30am, Shed [Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30/Robert Kirzinger]
OPEN REHEARSAL (Sunday program)

Saturday, July 11, 8:30pm, Shed
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
JAMES MORRIS, bass-baritone (Hans Sachs)
JOHAN BOTHA, tenor (Walther von Stolzing)
HEI-KYUNG HONG, soprano (Eva)
MARIA ZIFCHAK, mezzo-soprano (Magdalene)
MATTHEW POLENZANI, tenor (David)
HANS-JOACHIM KETELSEN, baritone (Sixtus Beckmesser)
JULIEN ROBBINS, bass-baritone (Veit Pogner)
TMC VOCAL FELLOWS (Mastersingers)
Steven Ebel, tenor (Eisslinger); Matthew Anderson, tenor (Moser);
Alex Richardson, tenor (Vogelgesang); Mark Van Arsdale, tenor (Zorn);
Alex Lawrence, baritone (Kothner); Saul Nache, baritone (Nachtigal);
Michael McGee, baritone (Ortel); Evan Hughes, bass-baritone (Schwarz);
Alan Dunbar, bass-baritone (Foltz)
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, JOHN OLIVER, conductor

WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act III
Concert performance sung in German with English supertitles

Sunday, July 12, 2:30pm, Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HERBERT BLOMSTEDT, conductor
JOSHUA BELL, violin

BEETHOVEN – Egmont Overture
BRUCH – Violin Concerto No. 1
DVORÁK- Symphony No. 8

Tuesday, July 14, 8pm, Ozawa Hall
LE CONCERT DES NATIONS
JORDI SAVALL, director
“Les Gouts Réunis”

LULLY – Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
BIBER- Battalia a 10
CORELLI- Concerto grosso
AVISON -Concerto No. 9 “after Scarlatti”
DE HITA- Musica sinfonica para los ministriles
BOCCHERINI- Quintet in C, La musica notturna della strade di Madrid

Wednesday, July 15, 8pm, Ozawa Hall
LE CONCERT DES NATIONS
JORDI SAVALL, director
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM, speaker
Stage Music in the Plays of William Shakespeare

JOHNSON – Jacobean Masque and Stage Music
LOCKE – Incidental music for The Tempest
PURCELL -The Fairy Queen