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
It is astonishing that, of the three symphonies written by a composer so much loved by concert audiences for his piano concertos, only his Second is reasonably well known.
