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JAMES LEVINE LEADS THE MET ORCHESTRA ON
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 AT 3:00 P.M. WITH VIOLINIST CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF
PERFORMING BRAHMS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO
Program also Includes Beethoven’s Große Fuge and
Messiaen’s Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Concert Kicks Off MET Orchestra’s Three Concert Series at
Carnegie Hall this Season Featuring Guest Artists
Peter Serkin, Joyce DiDonato, and Lang Lang
The MET Orchestra and James Levine return to Carnegie Hall on Sunday, October 5 at 3:00 p.m., launching their 2008–09 series of concerts with a performance to include Beethoven’s Große Fuge, Op. 133, and Messiaen’s Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum. The program concludes with German violinist Christian Tetzlaff, in his first of three Carnegie Hall performances this season, appearing as soloist in Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77. In November, Mr. Tetzlaff performs in Zankel Hall with his quartet, the Tetzlaff Quartet, which also features his sister Tanja. In February he collaborates in recital with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
James Levine and The MET Orchestra return to Carnegie Hall for two additional performances this season. On Sunday, January 25 at 3:00 p.m. pianist Peter Serkin is featured in the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s Time regained, a Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra. Also on this program, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joins the orchestra for performances of Mozart’s Ch'io mi scordi di te ... Non temer, amato bene, and Rossini’s La regata veneziana. On Thursday, May 21 at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Levine and the orchestra conclude the season with pianist Lang Lang featured in Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1. Complete program information is listed below.
Critically acclaimed violinist Christian Tetzlaff was born into a classically trained musical family in Hamburg. He attributes his early musical outlook to his teacher at the conservatory in Lübeck, Uwe-Martin Haiberg. He later came to the United States to continue his studies with Walter Levine at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Mr. Tetzlaff opens his 2008–09 North American season with this October 5 Carnegie Hall performance with the MET Orchestra and James Levine and continues the year with appearances with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, New York Philharmonic, and the Cincinnati Symphony. Mr. Tetzlaff will also give the North American premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage’s Violin Concerto, “Mambo, Blues and Tarantella,” with the Toronto Symphony in November 2008. Mr. Tetzlaff has released an extensive collection of recordings, including recent releases of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin on the Musical Heritage and Haenssler labels, as well as the Brahms and Joachim concertos with the Danish Radio Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard for Virgin Classics. In honor of his artistic achievements, Musical America named Mr. Tetzlaff as "Instrumentalist of the Year" in 2005.
Since his June 5, 1971 debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Tosca, Music Director James Levine has developed a relationship with that company that is unparalleled in its history and unique in the musical world today. He conducted the first-ever Met performances of Mozart's Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani, I Lombardi and Stiffelio, Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Schoenberg's Erwartung and Moses und Aron, Berg's Lulu, Rossini's La Cenerentola and Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, as well as the world premieres of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles and John Harbison's The Great Gatsby; all told, he has led nearly 2500 performances of 85 different operas there. Maestro Levine inaugurated the "Metropolitan Opera Presents" television series for PBS in 1977, founded the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 1980, returned Wagner's complete Der Ring des Nibelungen to the repertoire in 1989 (in the first integral cycles in over 35 years there), and reinstated recitals and concerts with Met artists at the opera house. Expanding on that tradition, he and the MET Orchestra began touring in concert in 1991, and since then have performed around the world as well as in its own subscription series at Carnegie Hall. Since 1998, Maestro Levine and the MET Chamber Ensemble have also performed three concerts annually at Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall. Mr. Levine is also concluding his fourth season as Music Director for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra is today regarded as one of the world’s finest orchestras. From the time of the company’s inception in 1883, the ensemble has worked with leading conductors in both opera and concert performances and has developed into an orchestra of enormous technical polish and style. The MET Orchestra maintains a demanding schedule of performances and rehearsals during the 33-week 2008–09 season. The company performs seven times a week in repertory that encompasses 28 operas, including three complete Ring cycles that are the season’s grand finale. In the spring of 1991, the Orchestra under the leadership of James Levine began concert touring, taking them across the US and to Europe several times. The orchestra also appears annually in concert at Carnegie Hall.
Program Information
Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
THE MET ORCHESTRA
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Große Fuge, Op. 133
OLIVIER MESSIAEN Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
JOHANNES BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
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Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
THE MET ORCHESTRA
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-Soprano
Peter Serkin, Piano
MOZART Ch'io mi scordi di te ... Non temer, amato bene, K. 505
CHARLES WUORINEN Time regained, a Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (World Premiere)
ROSSINI La regata veneziana (orch. Gamley)
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, "Italian"
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
THE MET ORCHESTRA
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Lang Lang, Piano
STRAVINSKY Pétrouchka (1947 version)
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
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