Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst shares insight about Stravinsky, his genius and depth as a composer. All-Stravinsky concerts, March 16 & 18, 2017 at Severance Hall.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
with
Seraphic Fire, vocal ensemble
(Patrick Dupre Quigley, artistic director)
Margot Rood, soprano
Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano
Steven Soph, tenor
Brian Giebler, tenor
James K. Bass, bass
Charles Wesley Evans, bass
and
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
(Robert Porco, director)
Extraordinarily innovative, enormously influential, Igor Stravinsky’s work embraced multiple compositional styles, revolutionized orchestration, spanned several genres, practically reinvented ballet form and incorporated multiple cultures, languages and literatures. This concert is drawn from the wealth of music composed after he had established himself as a musical revolutionary with The Rite of Spring, and includes Threni, considered the culminating point in his career as an artist.
At a Glance
STRAVINSKY – Fireworks
STRAVINSKY – Apollo
STRAVINSKY – Symphonies of Wind Instruments
STRAVINSKY – Threni, Lamentations of Jeremiah