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2022-23 BSO Season

Andris Nelsons conducts Escaich, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel with Gautier Capuçon, cello

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the American premiere of a new work for cello and orchestra by French organist-composer Thierry Escaich, written for soloist Gautier Capuçon. Maurice Ravel’s exuberantly orchestrated Alborada del gracioso is tinged with Flamenco rhythms and Spanish flavors. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s by turns lush and exuberant Symphony No. 2 closes the program.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Gautier Capuçon, cello

RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
Thierry ESCAICH Les Chants de l'aube, for cello and orchestra (American premiere; co-commissioned by the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Music Director, through the generous support of Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser.)
Intermission
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 10:30am EDT (Past)

Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 7:30pm EDT (Past)

Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 1:30pm EDT (Past)

Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 8:00pm EDT (Past)

Andris Nelsons wearing a dark blue plaid suit

Performance Details

Apr 13, 2023, 10:30am EDT

Featuring

Program Notes & Works

Alborada del gracioso

Maurice Ravel

Alternating sparkling dance music and aching melancholy, Alborada del gracioso is one of Ravel’s many tributes to the music of Spain.

Les Chants de l'aube, for cello and orchestra

Thierry Escaich

Thierry Escaich's BSO co-commissioned concerto for French cellist Gautier Capuçon explores lyricism and the transformation of melody.

Symphony No. 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff

By the time he came to write his Second Symphony, Rachmaninoff had become such a celebrity in Moscow—as composer, pianist, and conductor—that he found he had to “escape” in order to be able to compose without interruption.