Weekend One August 13-15, 2010

Berg and Vienna

Friday, August 13, 2010

BMF Program One

Alban Berg: The Path of Expressive Intensity


Friday, August 13, 2010 at 8:00 pm
 Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Notice to patrons: We expect heavy volume in our parking lots before this performance. Please give yourself enough time to park and make your way to the theater -- we suggest that you allow at least 30 minutes.

7:30 pm Preconcert Talk: Leon Botstein
8 pm Performance: Daedalus Quartet; Jeremy Denk, piano; Danny Driver, piano; Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet; Christine Goerke, soprano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players

In memory of George Perle

Tickets $20, 35, 45

Alban Berg (1885–1935)   
Seven Early Songs (1905–08)
Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1907–08
Four Pieces, for clarinet and piano (1913)   
Lyric Suite (1925–26)       

 Johann Strauss II (1825–99)
Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Op. 333 (1869, arr. Berg, 1921)     

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Opening Night Dinner tickets include a pre-performance dinner in the Spiegeltent and a premium seat for the evening’s concert.

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Please note: the Spiegeltent will be closed for dining that evening to accommodate the dinner.


Saturday, August 14, 2010

BMF Panel One

Panel One: Berg: His Life and Career


Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
 Olin Hall

Christopher H. Gibbs, moderator; Christopher Hailey; Douglas Jarman; Dan Morgenstern

Free and open to the public

BMF Program Two

Program Two: The Vienna of Berg's Youth


Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 1:00 pm
 Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Mark DeVoto 
1:30 pm Performance: Alessio Bax, piano; Daedalus Quartet; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Pei-Yao Wang, piano

Tickets: $35

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Selections from early piano works and songs

Alexander Zemlinsky (1871–1942)
Fantasies on Poems by Richard Dehmel, Op. 9 (1898)
Five Songs (Dehmel) (1907)

Karl Weigl (1881–1949)
String Quartet No. 3 in A Major (1909)

Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Piano Quintet  (1907)

BMF Program Three

Mahler and Beyond


Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 8:00 pm
 Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
8 pm Performance: Christiane Libor, soprano; Akiko Suwanai, violin; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Tickets: $25, 40, 55

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Fünf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4 (1912)
Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (1914–15)
Violin Concerto (1935)

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Adagio, from Symphony No. 10 (1910)

Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
“Abend” and “Nacht,” from Von deutscher Seele, Op. 28 (1921)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
Prelude and Carnival Music, from Violanta, Op. 8 (1914)




Sunday, August 15, 2010

BMF Program Four

Eros and Thanatos


Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 10:00 am
 Olin Hall
10 am Performance 
            Commentary by Byron Adams; with Marnie Breckenridge, soprano; Fredrika Brillembourg, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Thomas Meglioranza, baritone; Lucille Chung and Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Daedalus Quartet

Tickets: $30

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Liebe (1904)
From Lulu (1929–35)
Largo desolato from Lyric Suite (1925–26)

Johann Strauss II (1825–99)
From Die Fledermaus (1874)

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Morgen, Op. 27/4 (1894)

Alexander Zemlinsky (1872–1942)
From Lieder, Op. 7 (1901)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
From The Book of the Hanging Gardens (1908–09)
Am Wegrand, Op. 6/6 (1905)
From Erwartung, Op. 17 (1909)

Franz Schreker (1878–1934)
Entfuhrung (1909) and Und wie mag die Liebe dir kommen sein (1919)

Alma Mahler (1879–1964)
From Vier Lieder (1915)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
Mariettas Lied from Die tote Stadt (1920)
From Sechs einfache Lieder, Op. 9 (1911–13)


BMF Program Five

Teachers and Apostles


Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 1:00 pm
 Olin Hall
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Sherry D. Lee
1:30 pm Performance: Alessio Bax, piano; Marnie Breckenridge, soprano; Lucille Chung, piano; Cygnus Ensemble; Daedalus Quartet; Danny Driver, piano; Soovin Kim, violin

Tickets: $35

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910)               

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Six Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (1911)                                                 

Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Four Pieces, for violin and piano, Op. 7 (1910)

Egon Wellesz (1885–1974)
Three Piano Pieces, Op. 9 (1911)

Sandór Jemnitz (1890–1963)
Trio, for guitar, violin, and viola, Op. 33 (1932)

Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944)
Variations and Double-Fugue on a Piano Work by A. Schönberg, Op. 19/4 (1929)

Hans Erich Apostel (1901–72)                                                       
Variations from Lulu (1935)                                                                

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69)
Six Bagatelles, Op. 6 (1923–42)                            



BMF Program Six

The Orchestra Reimagined*


Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 5:30 pm
 Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
5 pm Preconcert Talk: Antony Beaumont
5:30 pm Performance **: Jeremy Denk, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; Members of the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director

Tickets: $20, 35, 45

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Kammerkonzert (1923–25)

Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
Berceuse élégiaque, Op. 42 (1909; arr. Stein, 1920)    

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1905–06)

Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 24/1 (1921)                            

*Please note that due to running times this program may overlap with the 7 pm film. 

** Round-trip transportation from Manhattan to Bard available for this performance. Fare is $20. Reservations are required. Click here for more information and to make a reservation.


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