Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra concert added to the Mozart & Pärt Festival

WHAT:

Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in three weeks of concerts to close the 2015/16 Walt Disney Concert Hall season with a Mozart & Pärt festival and a program of Kodály, Ligeti and Bartók. 

The Mozart & Pärt festival features two of Dudamel's best loved composers in programs that juxtapose music from two very different eras. Dudamel leads three orchestral programs, including the world premiere of a new work by Arvo Pärt commissioned by the LA Phil, and the local premiere of acclaimed video artist Bill Viola's Inverted Birth, as well as performances of Pärt's Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles." A concert from the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra kicks off the festival and an organ recital completes this cutting-edge collection of concerts.

Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic give their final 2015/16 season performances in a program of 20th-century Hungarian works - including Kodály's Dances of Galánta, Bartók's Viola Concerto performed by LA Phil Principal Viola Carrie Dennis, and Ligeti's Apparitions - capped by the Miraculous Mandarin Suite from Bartók's scandalous pantomime ballet.

PROGRAM DETAILS:

May 11, 2016

MOZART & PÄRT

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Andreas Scholl, countertenor

HANDEL Overture to Teseo, HWV 9
HANDEL "Chi mi chiama alla Gloria? ... Se parla nel mio cor" from Giustino, HWV 37
   Andreas Scholl, countertenor
HANDEL "Will the sun forget to streak" from Solomon, HWV 67
   Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
HANDEL "Bel contento" from Flavio, re de' Longobardi, HWV 16
   Andreas Scholl, countertenor
HANDEL "No more ... Iris, hence away" from Semele, HWV 58
   Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
HANDEL "Welcome as the dawn of day" from Solomon, HWV 67
   Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano and Andreas Scholl, countertenor
HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1 in G major, HWV 319
Arvo PÄRT Summa
Arvo PÄRT "Vater Unser"
   Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Arvo PÄRT "Es sang vor langen Jahren"
   Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano and Andreas Scholl, countertenor 
Caroline SHAW "Red, Red Rose" (world premiere)
   Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
PURCELL Suite from The Fairy Queen, Z. 629

May 19 - 22, 2016

MOZART & PÄRT

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Roxana Constantinescu, mezzo-soprano
Paul Appleby, tenor
Frederick Ballentine, tenor 2 (Miserere only)
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Kaspars Putniņs, artistic director
Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Kļava, artistic director

PÄRT Miserere
MOZART Requiem

ADDITION: Book Signing by Blair Tindall: "Mozart in the Jungle"

May 21, 6-10pm & May 22, Noon-5pm

Meet "Mozart in the Jungle" author and musician Blair Tindall during her book signing event at the LA Phil Store. The Mozart in the Jungle comedy series is based on her book. In the show's second season, Gustavo Dudamel made a guest appearance during an episode that was filmed at the Hollywood Bowl.

May 26 & 27, 2016

MOZART & PÄRT
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Bill Viola, video/sound installation
Inon Barnatan, piano

PÄRT Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453
VIOLA Inverted Birth
PÄRT Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles"

May 28 & 29, 2016

MOZART & PÄRT
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

MOZART Symphony No. 25, K. 183
PÄRT Greater Antiphons (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
MOZART Symphony No. 40, K. 550 

May 29, 2016

MOZART & PÄRT
Aaron David Miller, organ
Damin Spritzer, organ

GIGOUT Grand choeur dialogué
   Aaron David Miller and Damin Spritzer
MOZART Three Church Sonatas
   Sonata No.15 in C, K. 336
   Sonata No.1 in E-Flat, K. 67
   Sonata No. 13 in C, K. 328
   Damin Spritzer, organ
   Vijay Gupta, violin
   Jin-Shan Dai, violin
   Dahae Kim, cello
MOZART Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546
   Aaron David Miller, organ
   Aaron David MILLER Fireflies
   Aaron David Miller, organ
Arvo PÄRT Trivium
   Damin Spritzer, organ
Aaron David MILLER Improvisation on the Overture from MOZART's Le nozze di Figaro
   Aaron David Miller, organ
Arvo PÄRT Annum per annum
   Aaron David Miller, organ
ALKAN (arr. Spritzer) Benedictus, Op. 54
   Damin Spritzer, organ
MOZART Three Turkish Marches
   March from Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384
   March, K. 290
   Ronda alla Turca, K. 331
   Aaron David Miller, organ
Arvo PÄRT Spiegel im Spiegel
   Damin Spritzer, organ
MOZART Fantasia in F minor, K. 608
Aaron David Miller and Damin Spritzer

June 2 - 5, 2016

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Carrie Dennis, viola

KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
BARTÓK Viola Concerto
LIGETI Apparitions
BARTÓK Miraculous Mandarin Suite

WHERE:

Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012

TICKETS:

Tickets are available in person at the Walt Disney Concert Hall box office, online at LAPhil.com, or via phone at 323.850.2000. 

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