Boston Symphony Orchestra: Nielsen, Mozart, Brahms March 17, 2009

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

HERBERT BLOMSTEDT, conductor
RICHARD GOODE, piano

NIELSEN Helios Overture, Op. 17
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Richard Goode, one of the esteemed Mozart pianists of our time, performs the Concerto No. 18, one of the dozen mature Vienna concertos, with the BSO and Herbert Blomstedt. Blomstedt also conducts the great Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s concert overture Helios, celebrating the passage of the sun. Hans von Bülow, who premiered it, said about Brahms’s final symphony, “Unparalleled energy from beginning to end.” Brahms had called it “a bunch of polkas and waltzes.” Understatement of the musical century.

1st Price $105 Orchestra
2nd Price $87 Orchestra, First Balcony
3rd Price $70 Orchestra, First Balcony, Second Balcony
4th Price $46 Orchestra, Second Balcony
5th Price $36 Orchestra, First Balcony
6th Price $32 Orchestra, First Balcony, Second Balcony
7th Price $29 Second Balcony

All ages!

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