Artist Recital Series
The Cleveland Orchestra
Sunday, October 5, 2008, 3 p.m.
Tickets: $26, OCID and Seniors 55+: $22, Students: $10
Location: Finney Chapel (directions)
One of the world’s greatest orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra returns to Oberlin to open this year’s season with a lively program conducted by music director Franz Welser-Möst. Distinguished pianist Emanuel Ax joins the orchestra to play Karol S. Szymanowski’s tour-de-force Fourth Symphony—more piano concerto than symphony, really—and Richard Strauss’ Burleske. The orchestra closes the program with Antonín D. Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances, a festive celebration of Central European folk music. Continuing a longstanding tradition, this concert marks the 207th appearance of the Cleveland Orchestra on Oberlin’s Artist Recital Series.
Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183
R. Strauss: Burleske
Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 (“Symphonie Concertante”)
Dvorák: Slavonic Dances for Orchestra, Op. 4
“Mr. Welser-Möst gave an admirable and brilliantly played acount of Tchaikovsky … and the orchestra sounded great.”
“[Emanuel Ax] played with generous emotion, warmth, deep spiritualism, exuberance and unering taste, keeping his bravura passages in exquisite proportion.”
Photo: Roger Mastroianni
Franz Welser-Möst, music director and conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano