Bard Music Festival, Fisher Center
BMF Program Three
Saint-Saëns, a French Beethoven?
August 11, 2012
Bard Music Festival, Fisher Center
August 11, 2012
7 pm Preconcert Talk: Christopher H. Gibbs
8 pm Performance: Miranda Cuckson, violin; Danny Driver, piano; Sophie Shao, cello; Kent Tritle, organ; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director
Tickets: $30, 50, 60, 75
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Symphony in A Major (ca. 1850)
Le rouet d’Omphale, symphonic poem, Op. 31 (1872)
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, “Organ,” Op. 78 (1886)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, “Egyptian,” Op. 103 (1896)
La muse et le poète, for violin, cello, and orchestra, Op. 132 (1910)
Running time for the concert is approximately two and a half hours, with one intermission.
All programs subject to change.