On Friday 30 July 2010, Charles Dutoit leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila Overture, excerpts from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 with Gilmore Award winner Kirill Gerstein at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA. Juanjo Mena conducts Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra, Strauss' Four Last Songs (with soprano Hei-Kyung Hong) and Mahler's Symphony No 4 on Saturday 31 July. On Sunday 1 August Dutoit directs Sibelius' Karelia Suite, the Musorgsky-Ravel Pictures at An Exhibition and Elgar's Cello Concerto with Yo-Yo Ma. On 1, 2 and 4 August the Tanglewood Vocal Fellows and Music Center Orchestra present Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, directed by Ira Siff, conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi (1 and 2 August) and Keitaro Harada (4 August 2010). For information, see www.bso.org |