Giedre Slekyte | © Nikola Milakovic
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Igor Stravinsky
Concerto in E-flat for Chamber Orchestra "Dumbarton Oaks"
Osvaldas Balakauskas
Meridionale
Franz Schreker
Chamber Symphony for 23 Instruments

Lithuanian conductor Giedrė Šlekytė makes her Boulez Ensemble debut leading three 20th-century works for chamber orchestra. The program, which marks the ensemble’s 50th project since the opening of the Pierre Boulez Saal in March 2017, includes Franz Schreker’s late-Romantic Chamber Symphony, Stravinsky’s Concerto in Es, which was inspired by Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concertos, and Lithuanian composer Osvaldas Balakauskas’s Meridionale, written in 1994 in memory of Witold Lutosławski.

Approximate running time: 1h 15m with one intermission
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Pierre Boulez Saal
Französische Straße 33 D
10117 Berlin
Season 2022–2023,
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STRAWINSKY, BALAKAUSKAS, SCHREKER
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