Overture Magazine - 2014-2015 September-October 2014 | Page 30

{ program notes RESOUNDING DISCOVERIES JOIN US Sundays at 5:30 PM for our 2014–2015 Concert Season HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD, PIANO September 21, 2014 BELCEA QUARTET October 26, 2014 DANIELLE DE NIESE, SOPRANO CAMERON STOWE, PIANO November 16, 2014 STEVEN ISSERLIS, CELLO CONNIE SHIH, PIANO December 7, 2014 GIDON KREMER, VIOLIN GIEDRE DIRVANAUSKAITE, CELLO DANIIL TRIFONOV, PIANO January 18, 2015 JERUSALEM QUARTET February 15, 2015 LES VIOLONS DU ROY, BERNARD LABADIE, MUSIC DIRECTOR MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, PIANO March 15, 2015 RICHARD GOODE, PIANO April 19, 2015 8-CONCERT SUBSCRIPTION Regular $249 | Students $129 INDIVIDUAL-CONCERT TICKETS Regular $42 | Students $21 FOR MORE INFORMATION 410. 516.7 164 » WWW.SHRIVERCONCERTS.ORG 28 O v ertur e | www. bsomusic .org Gewandhaus Orchestra. Though Swedish law forbade women to be professional organists, she and her father fought for years to change the law and she eventually became the organist and music director at the Cathedral in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city. A prolific composer, Andrée introduced her Concert Overture in D (1873) at a concert she probably conducted herself in Berlin in 1888. Then for more than 100 years, it languished in an archive until Washington State musicologist Susan Pickett prepared a new edition, performed by the Walla Walla Symphony in 1998 and by the Swedish Radio Symphony in 1999. Its performances here in Baltimore will be only its third modern presentation. The Overture is a classically shaped sonata form in D Major with an exposition section containing two major themes, a development, and a recapitulation of the exposition music that stays close to what we originally heard. It opens with a lengthy slow introduction, led by rich-toned horns and other brass and living up to its expressive marking “maestoso” — “majestic.” The musical style is very German, as was the case with much Scandinavian music of this period, with strong echoes of the German early Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber as well as Robert Schumann. The spirit of Weber, famed for h