PROGRAM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture from Die Entführung aus dem Serail // Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 4 “Italian” – Saltarello (Presto) // Emmanuel Séjourné: Concerto for Marimba and Strings – 2nd movement (Soloist: Alexej Gerassimez) // Iannis Xenakis: Rebounds b (Soloist: Alexej Gerassimez) // Gaetano Donizetti: “Una furtiva lagrima” from L’elisir d’amore (Soloist: Stefan Pop) // Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Allegro vivace (Soloist: Lise de la Salle) // Franz Liszt: Liebeslied after Robert Schumann (Soloist: Lise de la Salle) // Johannes Matthias Sperger: Contrabass Concerto No. 15 – Adagio (Soloist: Edicson Ruiz) // Heinz Holliger: Preludio (Soloist: Edicson Ruiz) // Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Il mio tesoro” from Don Giovanni (Soloist: Rolando Villazón)
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood Music Festival
Founded in 1998 by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Silk Road Project is an internationally minded nonprofit arts, cultural and educational organization that promotes innovation and learning through the arts. Its vision is to connect the world’s neighbourhoods by bringing together artists and audiences around the globe. The Silk Road Ensemble is a collective of musicians, composers and performing artists from more than 20 countries around the world. In sharing traditions from various cultures, the Ensemble develops and performs new music and multimedia pieces, exploring and expanding contemporary musical crossroads. The Silk Road Ensemble has recorded five albums and performed to critical acclaim throughout Asia, Europe and North America. The concert presented here took place at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts, in June 2012. Concert: 105′ // Documentary: 95′