Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Boston, Symphony Hall, & the BSO in 1900

Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Earl Lee, conductor (Mahler) 
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Randall Hodgkinson, piano

LOEFFLER Timbres oubliés, for clarinet and harp
KOECHLIN Two Nocturnes for flute, horn, and piano 
SAINT-SAËNS Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs, for flute, oboe, clarinet, and piano 
BEACH Three pieces for violin and piano
MAHLER Songs of a Wayfarer (arr. SCHOENBERG)

To parallel our celebrations of Symphony Hall’s 125th anniversary, frequent guest pianist Randall Hodgkinson joins the Chamber Players for a program featuring composers active at the time of the hall’s opening in 1900. Amy Beach and Charles Martin Loeffler were both prominent in Boston’s musical community at the turn of the last century. Charles Koechlin and Camille Saint-Saëns represent two generations of Parisian music, while Mahler (and his younger colleague Schoenberg) were both active in Vienna.