Tanglewood schedule August 15-21, 2014
Article by Dave Read
On Friday, August 15 Maestro Stephane Deneve conducts the BSO in music by Beethoven and Prokofiev, with Emanuel Ax as soloist in Beethoven’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor. After intermission, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and mezzo-soprano Elena Manistina join the BSO for Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata, music originally written for Sergei Eisenstein’s film of the same name.
There will be a complete concert presentation of Bernstein’s Candide on Saturday, August 16, with Bramwell Tovey leading the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, with vocalists soprano Anna Christy, mezzo-sopranos Kathryn Leemhuis and Frederica von Stade, tenors Nicolas Phan and Beau Gibson, and baritones Paul LaRosa and Richard Suart, as well as vocal soloists from the Tanglewood Music Center.
Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra on Sunday, August 17, for the Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert. The TMC Fellows perform an all-Russian program featuring Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique and the complete ballet score for The Firebird, as well as Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky. Later the same day in Ozawa Hall, Ellis Marsalis, Jr. and his son Delfeayo Marsalis perform works from their first collaborative album, The Last Southern Gentlemen.
Friday, August 15, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall, Prelude Concert
Friday, August 15, 7:15 p.m. Shed, Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
This Week at Tanglewood, Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, August 15, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Stephane Deneve, conductor
- Emanuel Ax, piano
- Elena Manistina, mezzo-soprano
- Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
- BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor
- PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky
Saturday, August 16, 9:30 a.m. Shed, Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, August 16, 10:30 a.m. Shed, Rehearsal, Saturday program
Saturday, August 16, 8:30 p.m. Shed
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Bramwell Tovey, conductor
- Nicholas Phan, tenor (Candide)
- Anna Christy, soprano (Cunegonde)
- Kathryn Leemhuis, mezzo-soprano (Paquette)
- Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano (Old Lady)
- Beau Gibson, tenor (Governor, Vanderdendur, Ragotski)
- Paul LaRosa, baritone (Maximilian, Captain)
- Richard Suart, baritone (Voltaire, Pangloss, Martin,Cacambo)
- TMC vocal soloists
- Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
- BERNSTEIN Candide, Concert performance sung in English
Sunday, August 17, 2:30 p.m. Shed
- The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
- Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
- Charles Dutoit, conductor
- Nikolai Lugansky, piano
- STRAVINSKY Scherzo fantastique
- RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
- STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete)
The Last Southern Gentlemen, Ellis and Delfeayo Marsalis Sunday, August 17, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
The Last Southern Gentlemen is a landmark recording for Delfeayo Marsalis – for the first time, a pairing of father Ellis Marsalis, Jr. with Delfeayo on a collaborative album. This concert will feature songs from the album including both standards and original compositions. Built on the intimacy of American ballads and the trombone’s expressive mimicry of the human voice, The Last Southern Gentlemen is a firm acknowledgement of the existence and importance of these sweet, gentle sounds.
Tanglewood program highlights August 15-21, 2014
Emanuel Ax joins The BSO August 15 for Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto; Bramwell Tovey leads The BSO, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and singers in Bernstein’s Candide, August 16; Nikolai Lugansky joins Charles Dutoit For Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 on a program featuring Stravinsky’s Firebird, August 17; Ellis And Delfeayo Marsalis perform works From The Last Southern Gentlemen, August 17, 2014.