The Philadelphia Orchestra’s March 4 concert at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts will feature principal flute Jeffrey Khaner in the U.S. premiere of Vivaldi’s Flute concerto in D minor (“Il gran Mogol”) and the world premiere of a new concerto written for Khaner by the American composer Jonathan Leshnoff. The score for the Vivaldi work—originally scored for flute, two violins, viola, and bass, to be performed in Philadelphia with a reconstructed second-violin part—was discovered in the National Archives of Scotland in 2010 by Andrew Woolley, a research fellow at the U.K.’s University of Southampton. The work’s first performance took place at Scotland’s Perth Concert Hall on January 26, 2011, with the early-music group La Serenissima. Philadelphia Orchestra Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit will lead the March 4 concert, which also will feature Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben.
Posted February 15, 2011
