Highlights of the Boston Symphony's 1999-2000 season include:

October 1999:

Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection,"
featuring soprano Paula Delligatti and mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar. Seiji Ozawa will lead the Boston Symphony and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Zemlinsky's "Lyric Symphony"
- a cycle of seven songs for orchestra, baritone, and soprano based on love poems by the Indian mystical writer Tagore.
Bass-baritone José van Dam joins Mr. Ozawa and the Boston Symphony and Luba Orgonasova in her BSO debut *
This program will open with Beethoven's Symphony No. 2.

A World Premiere: Peter Lieberson's Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5
with Seiji Ozawa, conducting the BSO and pianist Peter Serkin as soloist.



Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2
Blacher's Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé."
with Emmanuel Krivine, conductor and Evgeny Kissin, pianist

November 1999:

Oliver Knussen's "Where the Wild Things Are"
- a "fantasy opera" after Maurice Sendak featuring British soprano Rosemary Hardy and American soprano Lucy Shelton. This program will also include the score to Copland's ballet "Appalachian Spring." The composer himself will lead the orchestra.

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K.467
- Roberto Abbado leads the Boston Symphony and young Italian pianist Gianluca Cascioli in his first performances with the orchestra. The program opens with Luciano Berio's "Rendering," the Italian composer's completion and interpretation of sketches for Schubert's unfinished Tenth Symphony and close with Schumann's Symphony No. 4.

Roslavets' "The Hours of the New Moon,"
- American premiere to be performed by the Boston Symphony, Yuri Temirkanov conducting. The program will include Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 and Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 2 featuring Lynn Harrell as soloist.

Thea Musgrave's "Phoenix Rising"
-American premiere of the Scottish-born composer's work to be led by Chicago Lyric Opera Music Director Sir Andrew Davis. The program will also feature violinist Ida Haendel in Dvoràk's Violin Concerto, and will close with Elgar's "Enigma" Variations.

December 1999:

"Nuages" and "Fêtes" from Debussy's "Nocturnes"
Lutosawski's Concerto for Orchestra
Brahms' Symphony No. 3.
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Seiji Ozawa will lead the Boston Symphony with violinist Itzhak Perlman as soloist.

January 2000:

World Premiere
Bright Sheng: A commisioned piece for piano and orchestra, with Emanuel Ax, soloist and Robert Spano, conductor
Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, Emanuel Ax, pianist
Maurice Ravel's "Mother Goose"
Claude Debussy's "La Mer,"

Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2
Rochberg's "Transcendental Variations"
Mozart's Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter"
James DePreist, conductor with Kyung-Wha Chung, violinist

Dvoràk's symphonic poem "The Golden Spinning Wheel"
Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms' Symphony No. 2
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor with British pianist Peter Donohoe

Julian Anderson's "The Stations of the Sun"
Mozart's "Sinfonia concertante" for violin and viola
DvoÍàk's Symphony No. 7
with Ilan Volkov, conductor; Thomas Zehetmair, violinist and Ruth Killius, violist

February 2000:

Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem"
The composer's commentary on the senselessness of war features soprano Christine Goerke and bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, and making his BSO debut, the English tenor Ian Bostridge . Seiji Ozawa leads the BSO.The Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, and the children's chorus PALS (Performing Artists at Lincoln School), Johanna Hill Simpson, director, will also join Mr. Ozawa and the Boston Symphony for this program.


Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1
Poulenc's "Stabat Mater"

BSO Principal Guest Conductor Bernard Haitink with Murray Perahia as soloist, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver - conductor.

Schumann's "Manfred" Overture
Brahms' Symphony No. 4
Berg's Violin Concerto

BSO Principal Guest Conductor Bernard Haitink, with Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist.

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7
BSO Principal Guest Conductor Bernard Haitink

MARCH

Osvaldo Golijov's "Last Round" (World Premiere)
Bruch's Concerto for clarinet, viola, and orchestra
Beethoven's Symphony No. 7
Seiji Ozawa will lead the Boston Symphony with BSO principals William Hudgins
and Steven Ansell as soloists.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
Berlioz' "Roman Carnival" Overture
Henri Dutilleux's Symphony No. 2, "Le Double"
Seiji Ozawa will lead the Boston Symphony with pianist Krystian Zimerman as soloist.

Sofia Gubaidulina's "Offertorium," for violin and orchestra,
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
with Semyon Bychkov, conductor and Vadim Repin, soloist

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
Christopher Rouse's "Iscariot"
Stravinsky's "Petrushka" (1947 version)
with David Zinman conducting the BSO and the French pianist Hélène Grimaud as soloist

An all-Strauss program:
Sextet, Moonlight Music, and Closing scene from "Capriccio."
"Symphonia domestica," a musical depiction of life in the composer's household.
with André Previn, conductor and English soprano Janice Watson as soloist

Barber's Violin Concerto
Mozart's Symphony No. 39
Previn's"Diversions" for orchestra
with André Previn, conductor and American violinist Pamela Frank

APRIL 2000
Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection," featuring soprano Paula Delligatti and mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar. Seiji Ozawa will lead the Boston Symphony and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Messiaen's "Turangalîla-symphonie."
Mr. Ozawa, a champion of this exotic, rarely-heard work in the 1960s and the first to record it ( with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra) leads the BSO. The work will feature Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano, and Takashi Harada and Ondes Martenot as soloists. Following the Symphony Hall performances of these works, Mr. Ozawa will take the "Turangalîla-symphonie" and Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection," to Europe for performances by the Boston Symphony in Paris and Cologne.