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Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho n y Hall
Rachmaninoff & Shostakovich
Thursday, November 13, 2014 — 8 p.m.
(and every season since), Israel Philharmonic 2005, Indianapolis Symphony
2007, China tour 2007, BBC Proms
2010. 2012 His acclaimed CD on Orchid
Classics of Prokofiev’s War Sonatas was
released in 2012, earning him a place on
the shortlist for the critics’ award at the
Classical Brits. He has appeared with
leading conductors such as Brabbins, De
Waart, Dohnanyi, Entremont, Fedoseyev,
Neeme Jaervi, Karabits, Krivine, Lintu,
Petrenko, Saraste, Sokhiev and Tortelier.
Boris Giltburg is making his BSO debut.
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Boris Giltburg, Piano
About the concert:
Marche slave, opus 31
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Marche slave, opus 31
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp minor, opus 1
Vivace
Andante
Allegro vivace
BORIS GILTBURG
INTERMISSION
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, opus 47
Moderato
Allegretto
Largo
Allegro non troppo
The concert will end at approximately 9:50 p.m.
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 7.
Sa sha Gusov
Boris Giltburg
12 O v ertur e |
Pianist Boris Giltburg
was born in 1984
in Moscow and has
lived in Tel Aviv since
www. bsomusic .org
early childhood. He began lessons with
his mother at the age of five and went
on to study with Arie Vardy. In 2013, he
took first prize at the Queen Elisabeth
Competition, having won second prize at
the Rubinstein in 2011 and top prize at
Santander back in 2002, and subsequently
appearing across the globe. Notable debuts
have included: South America tour 2002
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Born in Votkinsk, Russia, May 7, 1840;
died in St. Petersburg, Russia,
November 6, 1893
Piotr Tchaikovsky was usually too
wrapped up in his music to pay much
attention to what was happening in the
larger world around him. But in the summer of 1876, the tiny Balkan nations of
Serbia and Montenegro declared war on
Turkey in protest over Turkish massacres
of Christians in the Balkans, and Serbia’s
traditional ally Russia soon joined in
support. Russian volunteers left to fight
alongside the Serbians, money was raised
to aid both Serbian soldiers and civilians,
and the entire country seemed caught
up in sympathy for the suffering of their
fellow Slavs.
Tchaikovsky, too, followed the conflict
with emotional fervor. When his friend
and colleague Nikolai Rubinstein, the
head of the Moscow Conservatory, approached the composer for a new piece to
be performed at a fundraising concert in
Moscow for the Slavonic Charity Committee, he responded with enthusiasm—
in fact with such enthusiasm that he wrote
his Marche slave or Slavonic March in less