Article by Dave Read

Longtime BSO and Tanglewood guest Christoph von Dohnanyi returns to the podium for two more BSO performances Friday, July 25, and Saturday, July 26. The July 25 concert features English piano soloist Paul Lewis in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414, plus Beethoven’s Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, Italian. On July 26, Maestro Dohnanyi leads the BSO, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, soprano Camilla Tilling, and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is lead by conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos io the Shed on Sunday, July 27, for varied program of Rachmaninoff and Verdi. On the first half of the concert, Venezuelan-American pianist Gabriela Montero makes her BSO debut, performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, while the second half of the program is devoted to the music of Verdi, including the Overture and Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco and the Finale of Act II from Aida.

There is more opera on Thursday, July 31, when the Chamber Ensemble from the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra comes to Ozawa Hall for an evening of American opera. Led by conductor David Angus and featuring sopranos Chelsea Basler and Caroline Worra, mezzo-soprano Heather Johnson, tenor Omar Najmi, and baritones David McFerrin and Daniel Mobbs, the ensemble performs Jack Beeson’s 1965 opera Lizzie Borden about the infamous 1892 Fall River, Massachusetts, double axe murder. The work will be performed without intermission and sung in English with supertitles in a new chamber version created for the Boston Lyric Opera.

Friday, July 25, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall, Prelude Concert. Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, July 25, 7:15 p.m. Shed, This Week at Tanglewood Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 25, 8:30 p.m. Shed

• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
• Paul Lewis, piano
• BEETHOVEN Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
• MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414
• MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian

Saturday, July 26, 9:30 a.m. Shed, Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, July 26, 10:30 a.m. Shed, Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, July 26, 8:30 p.m. Shed

• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
• Camilla Tilling, soprano
• Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
• Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
• MAHLER Symphony No. 2, Resurrection

Sunday, July 27, 2:30 p.m. Shed

• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos,conductor
• Gabriela Montero, piano
• Vocal soloists
• Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor
• RACHAANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2
• VERDI Overture to Nabucco
• VERDI Va, pensiero
• (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco
• VERDI Finale of Aida, Act II

Thursday, July 31, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall

• Chamber Ensemble from the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
• David Angus, conductor
• Heather Johnson, mezzo-soprano (Lizzie Borden)
• Chelsea Basler, soprano (Margret Borden)
• Caroline Worra, soprano (Abigail Borden)
• Omar Najmi, tenor (Reverend Harrington)
• David McFerrin, baritone (Captain Jason McFarlane)
• Daniel Mobbs, baritone (Andrew Borden)
• BEESON Lizzie Borden

A chamber version in seven scenes without intermission; Music by Jack Beeson; libretto by Kenward Elmslie; Based on a scenario by Richard Plant.Realized by Todd Bashore (orchestration) and John Conklin (dramaturgy).Sung in English with supertitles.

Tanglewood program highlights week 4 July 25 – 31, 2014

Paul Lewis joins BSO And Christoph Von Dohnanyi For Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12, July 25; Maestro Dohnanyi leads Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, July 26; Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos conducts program of Verdi and Rachmaninoff with soloist Gabriela Montero; The Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra performs a chamber version Of Beeson’s Lizzie Borden, July 31