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Kim and Kang Play Bach

Presented by Philadelphia Orchestra at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

January 13-January 15, 2011

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Bruckner's most beloved symphony is the centerpiece of this program by guest conductor Donald Runnicles, who holds top posts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the BBC Scottish Symphony, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. This masterpiece of contrasts was composed under the spell of the music of Richard Wagner, an increasingly potent influence for Bruckner through the 1880s. Its chorale-like final coda using four Wagner tubas was written shortly after Bruckner learned of "the Master's" death in 1882. Maestro Runnicles is joined by Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster David Kim and First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang in Bach's Concerto for Two Violins, whose intricately intertwined solo parts create a sense of perfect equals. The program opens with Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's Collage über B-A-C-H, an economical but powerful tribute to J.S. Bach with outer portions based on the composer's initials and a breathtaking, if whimsical, central movement that pays cockeyed homage to the "Sarabande" from the composer's English Suite No. 6.