2013/14season brochure

elcome to the Vsos 95th anniversary season! The 2013/2014 Season celebrates ninety-five years of making music for the people of Vancouver and British Columbia, from 1919 to the present. As we venerate the past and celebrate the people who made the VSO what it is throughout the years, Maestro bramwell Tovey and the VSO boldly look forward

to the future, with exciting, brand new additions to the musical landscape of our city additions like the Vso spring Festival (p.18), Pacific rim celebration (p.21), and new Music Festival (p.20). The 95th Anniversary Season also presents the very best in classical masterpieces, Symphony Pops, matinees, and music for children and families.

enjoy the Vsos 95th anniversary season!

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T H E V A N C O U V E R S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

serIes PackaGes begin on the next page including . . . Masterworks Gold and Diamond Musically Speaking Classical Traditions Symphony Sundays Tea & Trumpets VSO Pops Chamber Players Kids Koncerts Surrey Nights Symphony at the Annex North Shore Classics or Make Your Own Series.

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The ten concerts of Masterworks packaged as Gold and Diamond, or all ten together represent the VSOs flagship classical series concerts. These ten concerts present the heart of the orchestral repertoire, from the great masters of centuries past,

to new commissions all performed by great guest artists and conductors, and the internationally-renowned Vancouver symphony orchestra.

PLEASE SEE THE NEXT PAGE FOR FULL CONCERT LISTINGS FOR MASTERWORKS GOLD AND DIAMOND.

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Nicola Benedetti

Travel to Scotland with sublime Scottish violinist, nicola benedetti, and the music of three great composers. Ms. Benedetti has been praised worldwide by critics and audiences alike, and her extraordinary playing will carry you away on the wings of a Scottish Fantasy.

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1GOLD The worlds foremost percussion soloist, Dame evelyn Glennie, opens the VSOs 95th

anniversary season with a bang, performing a commission by one of Canadas most prolific and decorated composers, randolph Peters.

And of course, ravels Bolro always makes for the most satisfying of concert climaxes.

Dame Evelyn Glennie

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BeethovenCycleYefim bronfman, one of the worlds greatest pianists, performs all five of beethovens great Piano Concertos in The beethoven cycle, over two very special concert weekends in Masterworks Gold and Diamond. Maestro bramwell Tovey conducts.

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The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey is one of the worlds most musical orchestras

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Yefim Bronfman

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Herbert von Karajan said, it is music coming from another world, it is coming from eternity, and Otto Klemperer believed that it was Mahlers greatest achievement. The monumental Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler speaks profoundly of a deep love of nature and the earth, and this landmark performance marks the crowning achievement of bramwell Toveys Mahler cycle with the VSO.

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One of Canadas all-time favourite artists, Louis Lortie plays chopins beautiful, romantic First Piano Concerto, in a concert that also features Canadian composer Dorothy chang, and the Finlandia-like, Nordic landscapes of sibeliuss Symphony No. 1.4GOLD

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When shostakovich himself said of his Ninth Symphony, Musicians will love to play it, and critics

will delight in blasting it, he should have also said, audiences will love listening to it. His Ninth is the most Classical of his symphonies, making it a good match for the music of two of the greatest Classically-Romantic composers, brahms and Mendelssohn; especially the hearts jewel that is Mendelssohns famous Violin Concerto.

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Exciting young pianist Joyce Yang has performed with the VSO to rave reviews in recent years, and she returns to tackle the piano's substantial, dazzling role in bernsteins The Age of Anxiety in a concert that features some of the core of the great American classical repertoire. 4DIAMOND

5DIAMONDMaestro Tovey and the VSOs Grammy and Juno-winning partner, Canadian violinist James ehnes, bring the 95th Anniversary season to a close with elgars monumental Violin Concerto, and respighis sensational Pines of Rome.

James Ehnes

Joyce Yang

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Conductor Mei-ann chen makes her VSO debut, while outstanding augustin hadelich

makes his much-anticipated return, performing Dvoks grand, virtuosic Violin Concerto. Also on the program, Tchaikovskys beautiful but rarely heard Winter Dreams Symphony.

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SEPT 28, 30Bramwell Tovey conductor Dame Evelyn Glennie percussion*

VerDI La Forza del Destino: OvertureranDoLPh PeTers Musicophilia (VSO Commission for Dame Evelyn Glennie: World Premiere)* hInDeMITh Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von WeberraVeL Bolro

NOV 2, 4Jun Mrkl conductor Nicola Benedetti violin*

DebussY Marche ecossaise sur un theme populaire (Scottish March on a Popular Theme)bruch Scottish Fantasy*MenDeLssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Scottish

DEC 7, 9Bramwell Tovey conductor Yefim Bronfman piano* Cherniavksy Laureate

WaGner Tannhuser: Overture beeThoVen Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major*beeThoVen Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Emperor*

MAR 15, 17John Storgrds conductor Louis Lortie piano*

DoroThY chanG Strange AirchoPIn Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor*sIbeLIus Symphony No. 1 in E minor

MAY 24, 26Bramwell Tovey conductor

MahLer Symphony No. 9 in D Major

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OCT 19, 21Mei-Ann Chen conductor Augustin Hadelich violin*

an-Lun huanG Saibei Dance DVok Violin Concerto in A minor*TchaIkoVskY Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Winter Dreams

NOV 16 (SATURDAY)Bramwell Tovey conductor Yefim Bronfman piano*

beeThoVen Leonora Overture No. 3beeThoVen Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major*beeThoVen Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major*

NOV 18 (MONDAY)Bramwell Tovey conductor Yefim Bronfman piano*

MozarT The Magic Flute: OverturebrahMs Symphony No. 3 in F Major beeThoVen Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor*

FEB 1, 3Rossen Milanov conductor Chad Hoopes violin*

brahMs Academic Festival OvertureMenDeLssohn Violin Concerto in E minor* kornDorF The Smile of Maud Lewis shosTakoVIch Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major

MAY 10, 12Kazuyoshi Akiyama conductor Joyce Yang piano*

GershWIn Cuban OverturecoPLanD Appalachian Springbarber Adagio for StringsbernsTeIn Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety*

JUNE 14, 16Bramwell Tovey conductor James Ehnes violin*

brITTen Peter Grimes: PassacagliaeLGar Violin Concerto in B minor*berLIoz Roman Carnival: Overture resPIGhI Pines of Rome

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3Pianist andrew von oeyen makes his VSO debut performing Mozarts decadent and poignant Piano Concerto No. 22. After the overture to the story of the damned lover Don Giovanni, Tchaikovskys symphonic fantasy tells the story of another famous damned lover, Francesca da Rimini from Dantes Inferno, in haunting, rapturous music.

Andrew Von Oeyen

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The Musically speaking series takes the mystery out of the music, and makes you feel at home enjoying the same quality of classical composers and guest artists as you would find

in Masterworks. Conductors take you inside the music with informative, fascinating, sometimes surprising and always entertaining commentary from the podium about the composers and their music. Video screens on either side of the stage take you closer to the extraordinary musicians with close-ups of all the action.

Gustav holsts extraordinary work, The Planets has forged a well-deserved place in the pantheon of great classical music. Describing the character of e