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The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced yesterday the three programs it will take to Carnegie Hall next season. The programs will be heard first in Symphony Hall, so the announcement sheds some early light on the orchestra’s local season, full details of which will likely not be announced until April.

Led by music director James Levine, each of the three Carnegie programs will include a new work, commissioned or co-commissioned by the BSO. The

first concert (Oct. 20) will include Leon Kirchner’s “The Forbidden” along with Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony and Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Maurizio Pollini as soloist.

The second Carnegie concert (Dec. 11) features Elliott Carter’s “Interventions,” a piece for piano and orchestra, with Daniel Barenboim as soloist. On the same program, Barenboim will also perform Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto and will team up with Levine in a four-hand piano work, Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor. That program will end with Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.”

For its final Carnegie concert (Feb. 9, 2009), the BSO will bring Gunther Schuller’s “Where the Word Ends.” The piece had been originally slated for performance last season but was postponed due to insufficient rehearsal time. Also on that program will be Mozart arias with the soprano Barbara Frittoli and Brahms’s Symphony No. 2.© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. more stories like this

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