Andris Nelsons conducts Rachmaninoff and Helen Grime featuring Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
The George W. and Florence N. Adams Concert
Endowed in Perpetuity
Virtuoso Swedish trumpeter and frequent BSO collaborator Håkan Hardenberger is the beneficiary of a new BSO-commissioned concerto from the British composer Helen Grime, a former Tanglewood Music Center Fellow with a dynamic, sparkling compositional style. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s gorgeous, short Vocalise for orchestra opens the program, which closes with the composer’s substantial Symphony No. 3, a late work characterized by scintillating orchestration and Rachmaninoff’s noted gift for long-spun melody and compelling musical narrative.
Gates open at 12pm
Performance Details
Jul 10, 2022, 2:30pm EDT
Program Notes & Works
Vocalise
Trumpet Concerto, night-sky-blue
American premiere; BSO co-commission
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 44
The refined and compact musical ideas in Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony result in an energetic and relatively transparent piece that still leaves room for passages of soaring and impassioned beauty.
