THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN
The Cleveland Orchestra
May 23, 2008
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Severance Hall
THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Kim Kashkashian, viola - Cleveland Orchestra debut
Schubert: Andante from Symphony "No. 10"
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin (complete)
Bartók: Viola Concerto
Strauss Jr.: Kaiser-Walzer ("Emperor Waltz")
This concert features four works and three composers from central Europe, spanning a century and a half of musical creativity. The program opens with the haunting Andante from Schubert’s incomplete “Tenth” Symphony and ends with the festive sounds of Johann Strauss’s magnificent “Emperor” Waltz. In between these two views of Viennese elegance and charm, Franz Welser-Möst explores the darker side of life through two works by Béla Bartók. The Hungarian’s daring is presented in his spellbinding ballet music from The Miraculous Mandarin — with a story so shocking in its eroticism and violence that it was banned onstage for decades after its premiere in 1926. After intermission, guest violinist Kim Kashkashian performs as soloist in Bartók’s charming and elegiac Viola Concerto, left incomplete at the composer’s death but finished from instructions and notations he left with the manuscript.
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