Article by Dave Read

The second week on the 2014 Tanglewood schedule begins with Maestro Nelsons conducting two programs. On Friday, Mr. Nelsons and the BSO are joined by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, in an all-Dvorak program including the Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 8, and the 1896 symphonic poem The Noonday Witch.

On July 12, Maestro Nelsons leads a dance-inspired gala performance featuring both the BSO and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. He leads the TMCO in excerpts from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier in the first half of the program, with sopranos Sophie Bevan and Angela Denoke and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. The second half features the BSO in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Ravel’s Bolero.

Friday, July 11, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall, Prelude Concert, Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, July 11, 7:15 p.m. Shed This Week at Tanglewood. Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 11, 8:30 p.m. Shed

• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Andris Nelsons, conductor
• Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
• ALL-DVO?ÁK PROGRAM
• The Noonday Witch
• Violin Concerto
• Symphony No. 8

Saturday, July 12, 8:30 p.m. Shed

• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (Strauss)
• Andris Nelsons, conductor
• Sophie Bevan, soprano (Sophie)
• Angela Denoke, soprano (Marschallin)
• Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano (Octavian)
• STRAUSS Excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier
• RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances
• RAVEL Bolero

Sunday, July 13, 2014 2:30 p.m. Shed

The Boston Pops Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart makes their 2014 Tanglewood debut on Sunday, July 13, with special guest Jason Alexander. Singer, dancer, and master of comedic timing, Mr. Alexander is best known for his appearances on television as George Costanza in Seinfeld.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music, from Paris, comes to Ozawa Hall on Tuesday, July 15, with its director and co-founder Benjamin Bagby for a performance as part of its Lost Songs Project: Music from the Court of Charlemagne.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8 p.m.Ozawa Hall

Renowned baritone Thomas Hampson gives an Ozawa Hall recital with pianist Wolfram Rieger on Wednesday, July 16, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss’s birth. In this program, Mr. Hampson explores the world of the composer and his influences as a writer of song at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. In addition to songs by Strauss himself, this concert will include music by Berg, Korngold, and Zemlinsky.