Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra: Walton/Rachmaninoff
Symphony Hall
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Benjamin Zander, conductor
Debussy, L'Apres Midi d'un Faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
Walton Cello Concerto, Leland Ko, cello
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Debussy's L’Apres Midi d’un Faune is a masterpiece of subtle and luminous orchestral colors and haunting melodic originality and has the strange quality of a waking dream.
If ever there were a symphony overflowing with love it is the Second Symphony of Rachmaninoff. Almost from its first note the emotion-drenched themes well up in an unstoppable flood, all of them clothed in Rachmaninoff's most gorgeous orchestration. The variety to be found in this symphony is astonishing too - with its tender confessional passages, its rapt outpourings, its hearty humor, and its occasional dark moments. A performance of this work is always an "event," and you won't want to miss it!
-Benjamin Zander
