Hartford Symphony Orchestra to Host Concerts

From the Hartford Symphony Orchestra: Celebrate the new year with the HSO! Come hear why a German critic described Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge as “incomprehensible, like Chinese” and “a confusion of Babel.” Today, the work is considered one of the composer’s greatest achievements! Ravel’s exuberant and soulful Piano Concerto in G Major was influenced by jazz, which he called “a very rich and vital source of inspiration.” Like Brahms’ final symphony, Franz Schubert’s thrilling magnum opus, Symphony No. 9, “The Great C Major,” pays tribute to Beethoven’s Ninth and is an extraordinarily complicated piece for its time period.

Hartford Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series: Beethoven and Ravel

• Friday – Sunday, January 20-22, 2017
• Belding Theater at The Bushnell
• Friday & Saturday 8pm│Sunday 3pm

Ticket Information: Tickets begin at $33. All student tickets are $10. $25 tickets are available for patrons age 40 and under for Saturday evening’s performance. To purchase tickets or for more information, please call 860-987-5900 or visit here.

Program

• Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B-flat Major, Op. 133
• Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major
• Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “The Great C Major”

Featuring

• Joel Smirnoff conductor
• Gilles Vonsattel piano

Please join us for a pre-concert talk, led by guest conductor Joel Smirnoff, one hour prior to curtain each day.

Photo courtesy of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra: Gilles Vonsattel