Handel’s Messiah, Peter and the Wolf and more during Piedmont Symphony’s 2013-14 season

This December, in collaboration with the Piedmont Singers, The Piedmont Symphony will bring Handel’s Messiah to Warrenton, and will follow it up in February with another beloved work, Prokofiev’s enchanting Peter and the Wolf.

An all-Shostakovich concert will open the season on Sunday, Oct. 27. The symphonic poem “October” will be followed by the Cello Concerto No. 1, with Jason Love as cello soloist, and the soaring Symphony No. 1 in F minor.

Messiah will be performed twice: first at Middleburg’s Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Saturday Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. and then on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 3 p.m. at the Highland School. The holiday concert will also present Anderson’s Sleigh Ride, Bach’s Double Concerto for Violin, with Concert Amster YevgeniyDovgalyuk and Associate Concermaster Lee Brewster as violinists, and a Piedmont regional premiere, Stephenson’s Christmas Card.

The February Young People’s Concert and Young Artists’ Competition will feature Peter and the Wolf. Narrator for this performance is PSO Founder and Conductor Emeritus, Michael A. Hughes.

What better way to wile away a lovely, languid April afternoon than to the rapturous strains of Copland’s beautiful Appalachian Spring? This program will also present two lesser known works : Rainbow Body, by the prize winning contemporary American composer, Christopher Theofanidis and the Oboe Concerto by the award-winning, and prolific American composer, John Harbison, with Fatma Daglar as the oboe soloist in her PSO debut.

On the program for the June 15 all-Beethoven concert will be the Egmont Overture, and David Cho and his Trio will perform the difficult Triple Concerto.  The afternoon and season will come to a grand conclusion with the Eroica (Heroic) Symphony, in tribute to Dads on Father’s Day.

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