Description:

Charles Dutoit and favorite piano soloist Martha Argerich start the season with a program of early-20th-century brilliance. Balanced between Russian exoticism and French elegance are four composers with a spirited panoply of sounds both fresh and nostalgic. Two fiery first concertos, created by brash young composer-pianists, winningly challenge ideas of concerto norms (Shostakovich's features an anti-hero solo trumpet, performed here by Principal Trumpet David Bilger). The concert ends with musical art--Ravel's ravishingly beautiful orchestration of Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, a masterful homage to a painter friend's creativity.

Related Concerts:

• October 18, 2008
  Berlioz's Romeo And Juliet
• October 31, 2008
  Conlon Conducts Beethoven
• November 08, 2008
  Tilson Thomas Conducts Mahler
• November 21, 2008
  Goodyear Plays Mozart
• December 04, 2008
  A Musical Space Odyssey
• January 08, 2009
  Runnicles Conducts Brahms

Concert Enhancements:

Free Pre-Concert Conversation one hour prior to concert

Program Notes:

October 03, 2008 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the Connoisseur Collection, and package Friday Afternoon 9A

Part of the Matinee Collection, and package Friday Afternoon 9A

Part of the Weekday Collection, and package Friday Afternoon 9A