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2023-24 BSO Season

Joana Mallwitz conducts Kodály, Tchaikovsky, and Schubert with Anna Vinnitskaya, piano

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Symphony Hall, Boston, MA

Joana Mallwitz, conductor
Anna Vinnitskaya, piano

KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
Intermission
SCHUBERT Symphony in C, The Great

German conductor Joana Mallwitz and Russian pianist Anna Vinnitskaya, both in their BSO debuts, perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s beloved and epic Piano Concerto No. 1, which originally premiered in Boston. The orchestra opens with the lively Dances of Galánta (1933) by Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, which combines traditional folk melodies from the composer’s home region with a symphonic context. In closing, Schubert’s towering Symphony in C, The Great, written near the end of his life and premiered a decade after his death by none other than Felix Mendelssohn.

Thursday evening’s concert is supported by Brooks and Linda Zug.

Thursday evening's performance by Anna Vinnitskaya is supported by The Helen and Josef Zimbler Fund.

Friday afternoon’s concert is in memory of William Pounds, supported by the Pounds Family.

The Friday Preview on November 3 at 12:15pm will be given by Marc Mandel, former BSO Director of Program Publications. Admission included with ticket.

Please allow additional arrival and entry time before your concert due to MBTA construction at the Symphony Green Line station. Parts of the sidewalk in front of Symphony Hall will be closed Mon-Fri 9:30am–3:30pm until further notice, however sidewalks will reopen two hours before BSO events

A headshot of Joana Mallwitz wearing a white top
A headshot of Anna Vinnitskaya leaning on a piano with arms crossed

Performance Details

Nov 4, 2023, 8:00pm EDT

Featuring

Program Notes & Works

Dances of Galánta

Zoltán Kodály

Warm and colorful, Dances of Galánta is Zoltán Kodály’s best-known orchestral work. Like his friend and compatriot Bartók, he infused his music with Central European folk music elements.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky’s now wildly popular first piano concerto had a rough start. He had hoped it would be premiered by his friend Nikolai Rubinstein, but Rubinstein declared it “worthless and unplayable.” Hans von Bülow gave the highly successful premiere in October 1875 in Boston.

Symphony in C, D.944, The Great

Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert’s Great C major was the last symphony he completed before his early death at age 31.

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