Description:

Music of yearning is the theme for these concerts featuring St. Petersburg-born Andrey Boreyko, chief conductor of the Bern Symphony and, beginning in September 2009, general music director of the Düsseldorf Symphony. The loneliness of a solo pilot at night, as expressed in Barber's haunting World War II-era Night Flight, is counterbalanced with the nostalgic "Morning Prayers" by Georgian composer Giya Kancheli. And the poetry of Chopin's melancholic Second Concerto--featuring the French-Canadian virtuoso Louis Lortie--is pitted against Stravinsky's mysterious Firebird, part of the Orchestra's focus on works written for the Ballets Russes.

Related Concerts:

• March 27, 2010
  Mozart and Elgar
• April 11, 2010
  The Rite of Spring
• April 16, 2010
  Ax Plays Beethoven
• May 27, 2010
  Mozart and Rachmaninoff
• May 29, 2010
  Mozart and Rachmaninoff
• June 05, 2010
  Dutoit Conducts Strauss

Audio Samples:

CHOPIN - Piano Concerto No. 2

STRAVINSKY - Suite from The Firebird (1911 original)

Concert Enhancements:

Free Pre-Concert Conversation one hour prior to concert (About Pre-Concert Conversations)

Program Notes:

February 13, 2010 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the 2010 Celebration Collection, and package Satruday 8A

Part of the 2010 Connoisseur Collection, and package Saturday 5D

Part of the 2010 Weekend Collection, and package Satruday 8A