Article by Dave Read

Third week of the 2014 Tanglewood season has guest conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi leading the BSO and Thomas Hanson in selections from American composer Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs. Mr. Dohnanyi also leads the orchestra in Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. BSO Music Director Designate Andris Nelsons returns to lead the orchestra in a pair of concerts July 19 & 20. The Saturday performance features Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 and Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio italien. The program includes contemporary Swedish composer Rolf Martinsson’s Bridge, Trumpet Concerto No. 1, with soloist Håkan Hardenberger.

Joshua Bell Tanglewood program Sunday, July 20, 2014

On Sunday, Mr. Nelsons is joined by virtuoso American violinist Joshua Bell for Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra, on a program that also includes Beethoven’s immortal Symphony No. 5 and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York-based composer Christopher Rouse’s Rapture, a 2000 work that Rouse says is meant to convey “a sense of spiritual bliss, religious or otherwise.”

On Wednesday, July 23, New York-based orchestra The Knights, a unique and flexible ensemble featuring musicians and composers from diverse musical backgrounds that expands and contracts to accommodate the variety of music it performs, performs in Ozawa Hall. The program features Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks, for soprano, jazz musicians, and strings, and transcriptions for trumpet and ensemble of songs by Joni Mitchell, Kurt Weill, Michel Legrand, and Astor Piazzolla. Soloists include soprano Dawn Upshaw, trumpetist Håkan Hardenberger, pianist Frank Kimbrough, clarinetist Scott Robinson, and bassist Jay Anderson.

Ozawa Hall programs July 23 & 24, 2014

America’s brightest young players ages 16–19 visit Tanglewood on Thursday, July 24, as the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America comes to Ozawa Hall. The program, led by St. Louis Symphony Music Director David Robertson and featuring American violinist Gil Shaham, includes Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Britten’s Violin Concerto, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and a new work by Samuel Adams commissioned and written for the orchestra.

Friday, July 18, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall. Prelude Concert Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, July 18, 7:15 p.m. Shed This Week at Tanglewood Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 18, 8:30 p.m. Shed

• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Christoph von Dohnányi0, conductor
• Thomas Hampson, baritone
• STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
• COPLAND Selection of Old American Songs
• BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Pre-Rehearsal Talk, Saurday, July 19, 10:30 a.m. Shed. Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, July 19, 8:30 p.m. Shed

• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Andris Nelsons, conductor
• Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
• BRAHMS Symphony No. 3
• MARTINSSON, Bridge, Trumpet Concerto No. 1
• TCHAIKOVSKY, Capriccio italien

Sunday, July 20, 2:30 p.m. Shed

• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Andris Nelsons, conductor
• Joshua Bell, violin
• ROUSE, Rapture
• LALO, Symphonie espagnole, for violin and orchestra
• BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5

Wednessday, July 23, 2014 8PM Ozawa Hall

• The Knights
• Dawn Upshaw, soprano
• Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
• Frank Kimbrough, piano
• Scott Robinson, clarinets
• Jay Anderson, double bass

Thursday, July 24, 2014 8PM Ozawa Hall

• National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
• David Robertson, conductor
• Gil Shaham, violin
• Samuel Adams New work
• BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
• BRITTEN Violin Concerto
• MUSSORGSKY (orch. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition

Program for Week 3 Tanglewood July 18 – 24, 2014

Program for Week 3 Tanglewood July 18 – 24, 2014 highlights: Andris Nelsons leads second weekend of programs: july 19 features trumpet soloist Hakan Hardenberger in Rolf Martinsson’s Bridge, Trumpet Concerto no. 1; Joshua Bell joins Nelsons july 20 for Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole; Thomas Hampson performs Copland’s Old American Songs, with Christoph von Dohnanyi; NY orchestra The Knights perform in Ozawa Hall july 23; David Robertson leads the National Youth Orchestra of the USA, July 24, 2014.