Earl Lee conducts Brian Raphael Nabors, Poulenc, and Mendelssohn featuring Christina and Michelle Naughton, pianos
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee makes his BSO debut, joined by the virtuosic piano duo of twins Christina and Michelle Naughton in their Tanglewood debuts performing Francis Poulenc’s impish neoclassical Concerto for Two Pianos. American composer Brian Raphael Nabors’ exciting and rhapsodic Pulse reflects on the varieties of experience that we might encounter every day. Felix Mendelssohn found inspiration for his intensely Romantic Symphony No. 3 on a trip to Scotland in 1829. Composed a decade later, it was his last completed symphony.
Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.
Gates open at 5:30pm
Performance Details
Aug 5, 2022, 8:00pm EDT
Program Notes & Works
Pulse
Pulse is an exuberant display of expressive virtuosity: a demonstration of Nabors’s ability, like a film composer, to shift emotional gears quickly while strongly maintaining the thread of the musical narrative.
Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos
Francis Poulenc composed his Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos in the summer of 1932 on a commission from the Princess Edmond de Polignac.
Symphony No. 3, Scottish
"The chapel beside it has lost its roof and is overgrown with grass and ivy, and at that broken altar Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland. Everything there is ruined, decayed and open to the clear sky. I believe that I have found there today the beginning of my Scotch Symphony." — Felix Mendelssohn
