There may not be many concerts happening during this coming work week, but the number of concerts scheduled for the weekend will require shrewd planning for serious listeners.
SYMPHONY:
>> Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, the brothers from France who play violin and cello with exceptional flair, will join the National Symphony Orchestra this week. The program in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall includes the Brahms double concerto (for violin and cello), Debussy’s iconic symbolist poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and Harmonielehre by John Adams, with Leonard Slatkin conducting. Nice programming, Maestro! February 15 and 16, 7 p.m.; February 17, 8 p.m. (full-time students are eligible to buy $10 tickets for the Thursday and Friday performances through the Attend! program).
>> For less money, you can also hear the University of Maryland Symphony and Choirs perform Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and music by Brahms and Haydn on Saturday (February 17, 8 p.m.) at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park. Tickets: $20 (students, $7).
>> If you are a devoted symphonic listener, you will work in one of the performances by the Baltimore Symphony, too. Their program this week features pianist Orli Shaham playing Messiaen’s colorful Oiseaux exotiques, along with music by Wagner, Debussy, Berlioz (with Jun Markl conducting). Both concerts are in Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Symphony Hall: February 15 and 16, 8 p.m.
>> A tour of the region’s orchestras could end on Sunday (February 18, 5 p.m.) with a concert by the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic at the Church of the Epiphany (1317 G Street NW). Violinist Elisabeth Adkins will play the solo part in Beethoven’s violin concerto, along with a new symphony by Steven Gerber and the first symphony of Hailstork. Tickets: $15.
