Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Dutilleux, Mendelssohn, Debussy, and Ravel featuring Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk returns to Tanglewood and is joined by violinist Leonidas Kavakos in Felix Mendelssohn’s buoyant Violin Concerto, one of the most popular works in the genre. Henri Dutilleux’s 1964 Métaboles features the French composer’s intricately imaginative scoring and his innovative, organic approach to form. Claude Debussy’s revolutionary Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, a contemplation of a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, is one of the clearest sources of 20th-century musical modernism. Maurice Ravel composed his Mother Goose for a friend’s children to play on piano, but its incisive character sketches and the brilliant orchestral canvas he later created make it a satisfying piece for any listener.
Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.
Gates open at 5:30pm
Performance Details
Aug 13, 2022, 8:00pm EDT
Program Notes & Works
Métaboles
Dutilleux means to point out that the context and combination of different kinds of musical events make us hear the individual ideas anew each time.
Violin Concerto
This is, quite simply, one of the most original and one of the most attractive concertos ever written.
Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Faun remains, along with La Mer (1903-05), one of the composer’s best-known and most popular works for orchestra.
Mother Goose (complete)
Ravel rejoiced in animals and children, and many of his works reflect a soul brought to life by fantasy, fable, exotic places, and romanticized history.
