The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons will make their first European tour together this summer, performing twelve concerts in eight European cities between August 22 and September 5. Venues will include London’s Royal Albert Hall, the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, the Philharmonie de Paris, Cologne’s Philharmonie, Berlin’s Philharmonie, and the Salzburg, Grafenegg, and Lucerne festivals. The tour program features cellist Yo-Yo Ma and BSO Principal Violist Steven Ansell in Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote; Brett Dean’s Dramatis Personae with trumpet soloist Hakan Hardenberger; Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Barber’s Second Essay for Orchestra; and three symphonies: Haydn’s Symphony No. 90, Mahler’s Sixth, and Shostakovich’s Tenth. Sponsored exclusively by EMC Corporation, this is the BSO’s fifteenth tour to the major music capitals of Europe, and its first European tour since 2007. Scheduled for release just prior to the tour is the first album resulting from a new partnership among the BSO, Andris Nelsons, and Deutsche Grammophon, featuring Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony and the Passacaglia from his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
Photo of Andris Nelsons and the BSO: Marco Borggreve
Posted April 30, 2015
