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August 4, 2015<\/span> Article by Dave Read<\/a><\/p>\n

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Andris Nelsons conducting the BSO at Tanglewood (Hilary Scott)<\/figcaption><\/figure>BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons<\/strong> will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> in thirteen extraordinarily wide-ranging programs in the 2015-16 BSO season<\/em>, highlighted by new programming and recording initiatives around the music of Shostakovich<\/strong>, three weeks of thematic concerts honoring the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare\u2019s<\/strong> death, concert performances of Strauss\u2019s<\/strong> Elektra<\/em> with Christine Goerke<\/strong> in the title role, and new works by Hans Abrahamsen, Sebastian Currier, Giya Kancheli, and George Tsontakis<\/strong>. Subscriptions for the BSO\u2019s 2015-16 season are available now by calling 888-266-7575 or visiting www.bso.org; single tickets, $25-$145, go on sale August 3.<\/p>\n

BSO and Deutsche Grammophon announce Dmitri Shostakovich live recording project<\/h2>\n

In conjunction with the BSO\u2019s 2015-16 season announcement, the BSO and Deutsche Grammophon have announced a multi-year collaboration beginning with a series of live recordings of works by Dmitri Shostakovich. The project\u2014five albums to be released in three installments between summer 2015 and summer 2017\u2014will initially focus on music written by Shostakovich during the most intense period of his difficult relationship with Stalin and the Soviet regime\u2014starting with his fall from favor in the mid-1930s, the composition and highly acclaimed premiere of his Fifth Symphony through Stalin\u2019s death in 1953, and the premiere of the composer\u2019s Tenth Symphony. <\/p>\n

BSO’s 134th season opens October 1, 2015 with an all-Russian program<\/h2>\n

The Boston Symphony Orchestra\u2019s 134th season will open on Thursday, October 1, with an all-Russian program featuring the incomparable Evgeny Kissin, who joins Mr. Nelsons and the orchestra for Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 1, on a program with works by Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff. Andris Nelsons, in his second full season with the orchestra, brings the BSO\u2019s season to a close on April 23 with a program featuring soprano Kristine Opolais in the \u201cLetter Scene\u201d from Tchaikovsky\u2019s Eugene Onegin. The program opens with Dutilleux\u2019s M\u00e9taboles, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer\u2019s birth; it will also include music of Rachmaninoff, Ravel, and Debussy.<\/p>\n

BSO celebrates Shakespeare on 400th anniversary of his death<\/h2>\n

To honor the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare\u2019s death, Andris Nelsons leads three programs of Shakespeare-inspired music in January and February, to include not only such popular repertoire staples as Mendelssohn\u2019s Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream music, Weber\u2019s Overture to Oberon, music from Prokofiev\u2019s ballet Romeo and Juliet, and Tchaikovsky\u2019s overture-fantasy of that name, but also such rarities as Strauss\u2019s Macbeth, Dvo?\u00e1k\u2019s Othello Overture, and a suite from Shostakovich\u2019s incidental music to Hamlet, as well as Hans Werner Henze\u2019s BSO-commissioned, Midsummer-Night\u2019s-Dream-inspired Symphony No. 8, premiered here in 1993. Also highlighting these weeks will be a series of related events, to encompass lecture, panel discussion, and film presentations.<\/p>\n

The Shakespeare celebration also includes a new work by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen\u2014let me tell you, based on texts from Hamlet, featuring, in her BSO debut, Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan; and the world premiere of American composer George Tsontakis\u2019 Sonnets, a BSO commission written for BSO English horn player Robert Sheena. Other new works under the direction of Mr. Nelsons in 2015-16 include a BSO co-commission (with the Seattle Symphony) of American composer Sebastian Currier\u2019s Divisions for orchestra andthe American premiere of Georgian composer Giya Kancheli\u2019s Dixi for chorus and orchestra, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.<\/p>\n

The prestigious list of guest artists and ensembles joining Mr. Nelsons and the BSO for the 2015-16 season includes pianists Yefim Bronfman (Bart\u00f3k Piano Concerto No. 2), Paul Lewis (Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3), and Nikolai Lugansky (Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini); mezzo-soprano Nadezhda Serdyuk (Prokofiev\u2019s Alexander Nevsky); violinist Isabelle Faust (Berg Violin Concerto); BSO Concertmaster Malcolm Lowe and Principal Viola Steven Ansell (Mozart Sinfonia Concertante); and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (choral works of Bach, Prokofiev\u2019s Alexander Nevsky, Kancheli\u2019s Dixi, and Strauss\u2019s Elektra).<\/p>\n

Throughout the 2015-16 season, Mr. Nelsons continues to spotlight the orchestra through performances of such major symphonic works as Brahms\u2019s Symphony No. 2, Bruckner\u2019s Symphony No. 3, Debussy\u2019s La Mer, Prokofiev\u2019s Romeo and Juliet, Rachmaninoff\u2019s Symphonic Dances, Tchaikovsky\u2019s Romeo and Juliet, Ravel\u2019s La Valse, Shostakovich\u2019s Symphonies Nos. 5, 8, and 9, and Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams, as well as Mahler\u2019s Ninth Symphony, the work Mr. Nelsons led the first time he ever conducted the BSO, in March 2011, before becoming its music director in fall 2014.<\/p>\n

Following the BSO\u2019s 2015-16 season at Symphony Hall, Andris Nelsons will lead the orchestra in a European tour, May 3-12, 2016 to eight cities in Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg. This will be Andris Nelsons\u2019 second tour with the BSO; he leads his first tour as BSO music director in August\/September 2015\u2014an eight-city tour to major European capitals, including Berlin, Cologne, London, Milan, and Paris, as well as the Lucerne, Salzburg, and Grafenegg festivals. <\/p>\n

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