San Francisco Symphony
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Michael Tilson Thomas
conductor
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Christian Tetzlaff
violin
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Overture to “The Flying Dutchman”
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Violin Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Only love can bring redemption: For Richard Wagner, this was a lifelong theme that is manifested in various ways throughout his operatic work. In “The Flying Dutchman,” Senta, through her love-death, is able to exorcize the curse that burdens the titular hero, who has been condemned to sail restlessly around the world until the Day of Judgment. In 1935 Alban Berg dedicated his Violin Concerto “to the memory of an angel,” referring to Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius, who died prematurely at eighteen of polio. The Bach chorale “Es ist genug” serves as the center and the motivic germ of the work. Berg himself died without hearing the Concerto: Three months before its premiere, he fell victim to blood poisoning. Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony will pair Wagner’s and Berg’s fate-filled works with the paradigm of a heroic symphony associated with Fate itself through its popular nickname: Beethoven’s Fifth leads us, at the end, through the darkness of night into the light.
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