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From Carnegie to Uihlein Hall, nobody hears us like you do. Whether Beethoven, Bartók, Bernstein, John Adams, Sibelius or Rachmaninoff, there’s something about each and every MSO performance that makes it uniquely you. What makes it your MSO? Perhaps it’s the great Romantics: This season, the Beethoven Festival returns to take you to a place of comfort, beauty and joy — an escape from the day to day instant-everything. Or maybe it’s Rachmaninoff, with the help of virtuoso pianist Joyce Yang, who takes you to a place of wonder, of deep, abiding love. Ingrid Fliter returns as well for a truly inspired Chopin. And Music Director Edo de Waart’s long-time colleague, Radu Lupu, joins the MSO for the first time ever with Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Perhaps it’s discovering more about the fascinating relationship between contemporary composers Bernstein, Lukas Foss and Shostakovich. Or hearing more of John Adams’s innovative soundings. Or maybe it’s musical friends — old and new — that you’ll meet throughout the season. Milwaukee’s favorite Conductor Laureate Andreas Delfs gets 2013.14 started with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring a return engagement by New Yorker Jeremy Denk. Another New Yorker, the astoundingly courageous violinist Augustin Hadelich, returns for Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, whose premiere was conducted by Stravinsky himself. Get familiar with up-and-coming artists Jennifer Koh and Karen Gomyo, violin, Andreas Brantelid, cello, and Orion Weiss, piano, whose stars are sure to shine brightly. Speaking of brilliance, MSO principal players Frank Almond, Todd Levy and Susan Babini remind us we need look no farther than Uihlein Hall for world-class virtuosity.
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One city, one symphony. One word: Amazing. The making of amazing music is all about chemistry. With the right elements, under the right conditions, magic happens. Once the house lights are down, once the orchestra finishes tuning and the conductor takes the podium, for one miraculous moment, sound stops. A downbeat and the silence breaks. What started as black and white notes on a printed page comes to full-blown living color in the unparalleled experience of a live performance. Relax. Listen. Enjoy. Go to that place only music can take you. Music-maker, audience member, young or not-so-young, it’s different for each and every person in the Hall. Remember the first time you heard Beethoven’s 9th and go to that place again. Re-experience the joy of Beethoven’s triumphant, tear-inciting achievement. Give yourself over to the power of music. In the greatest of times — and least of times — time and again, it speaks to you. And only you. Could life, at any moment, get any better than this? That crystal clear, stratospheric sound of a Stradivarius as the notes hang high in the air? It’s just for you. Excellence has a sound. Hear it live this season in any of the 130-plus performances of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. And escape to the sound of excellence.
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Opening Weekend 20 –22 Septem ber 2013
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Andreas Delfs conductor | Jeremy Denk piano Aaron Jay Kernis Musica Celestis Liszt
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
His life in constant turmoil, Tchaikovsky poured his soul into each of his symphonies, symphonies that would express his inner anguish as no music ever dared. Andreas Delfs returns to open the season with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. And keyboard sensation Jeremy Denk plays Liszt’s blistering Piano Concerto No. 1.
“Mr. Denk, clearly, is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination — both for his penetrating intellectual engagement with the music and for the generosity of his playing.“
— The New York Times
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27 + 28 Sep tember 2013
Seductive Ravel
Roberto Abbado conductor Augustin Hadelich violin MSO Chorus Lee Erickson, director Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D major Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé
Once seduced by Ravel’s intoxicating Daphnis and Chloé, Igor Stravinsky declared it “one of the most beautiful products of all French music.” Stravinsky’s own Violin Concerto will be heard, performed by courageous virtuoso, Augustin Hadelich.
“The essence of Hadelich’s playing is beauty: reveling in the myriad ways of making a phrase come alive on the violin, delivering the musical message with no technical impediments whatsoever, and thereby revealing something from a plane beyond ours.” —The WASHINGTON POST
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Concertos for Orchestra Asher Fisch conductor | Todd Levy clarinet
Wagner
Overture to Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622
Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
The Milwaukee Symphony’s own Todd Levy is featured in Mozart’s exquisite Clarinet Concerto, the master’s final work in the form. Then, a concerto for the entire ensemble — Bartók’s dazzling Concerto for Orchestra — will showcase the virtuosity of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
“Fisch’s debut…was a virtuoso display of fervent, eloquent musicianship, one that took familiar standards of the Romantic repertoire and made them sound fresh and alluring all over again.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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16 N ov em be r 2013
Fliter Plays Chopin Edo de Waart conductor | Ingrid Fliter piano Michael Ippolito Nocturne for Orchestra Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Her medal-winning performance at the International Chopin Piano Competition left audiences standing and cheering. The Chicago Tribune acclaims Ingrid Fliter’s “inspired pianism.” Now she returns to the Milwaukee Symphony to perform Chopin’s romantic Piano Concerto No. 1. And Edo de Waart conducts another masterwork, Brahms’s Second Symphony. 6B
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22 – 24 November 2013
Schubert’s Sixth
Hans Graf conductor Joélle Harvey soprano | Jennifer Rivera mezzo-soprano | Wesley Rogers tenor MSO Chorus Lee Erickson, director Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543
Schubert Mass No. 6 in E-flat major, D. 950 Composed in Franz Schubert’s final months, and never heard in his too-brief lifetime, the Mass in E-flat is a poignant and deeply affecting cry from the composer to his Creator. These concerts also feature one of Mozart’s great, final symphonies, No. 39.
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17 + 18 Ja nuary 2014
Brahms’s “Fifth” Edo de Waart conductor | Jennifer Koh violin Bach
Ricercare No. 2 from Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (orch: Webern)
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Violin Concerto
Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (orch: Schoenberg)
The Second Viennese masters “recomposed” composing. Anton Webern modernized Bach. Alban Berg dedicated his Violin Concerto “to the memory of an Angel.” And when Arnold Schoenberg orchestrated Brahms’s Piano Quartet, he dubbed it “Brahms’s Fifth” — an orchestral powerhouse to rival Pictures at an Exhibition.
“…We heard silvery bells, vibraphones, high strings, with the superb soloist Jennifer Koh making dancing patterns between them…” — Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph
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24 + 25 January 2014
Radu Lupu
Edo de Waart conductor | Radu Lupu piano
Schumann
Manfred Overture, Op. 115
James Macmillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
“His talent is the kind of which legends are made,” declares Gramophone of Radu Lupu. “A magician” says the Los Angeles Times. “A poet” according to The New York Post. Radu Lupu and Edo de Waart reunite for Brahms’s impassioned First Piano Concerto. Their famous 1974 recording of the work is still considered a benchmark performance. 6
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31 Janua ry – 1 February 2014
Leonard Bernstein — “On the Town” Francesco Lecce-Chong conductor | Kathleen Kim soprano Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from On the Town Foss
Time Cycle
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Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Bernstein On the Waterfront Symphonic Suite The voices of two American masters — author James Agee and composer Samuel Barber — come together in sharing early childhood memories for Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Lukas Foss’s Time Cycle sets philosophy to music. Then Leonard Bernstein on Broadway is heard in his dances from On the Town — then, from Hollywood, his suite from On the Waterfront.
“The jewel of this evening is certainly the soprano Kathleen Kim... who delivers crystal clear singing, secure high notes and a timbre of exquisite freshness.”
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21 + 22 F eb ruary 2014
Transcendent Sibelius
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor | Andreas Brantelid cello
Nielsen
Helios Overture, Op. 17
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 Sibelius
Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
“It transported me to a new civilization,” wrote one critic after the premiere of Sibelius’s First Symphony. “Every page breathes another manner of thought, another way of living than ours…” Plus, one of Shostakovich’s most personal declarations, the haunting First Cello Concerto. 6
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“…Following a mesmerisingly beautiful Adagio, Brantelid managed to create a tangible lightening of atmosphere at the opening of the finale. The auditorium breathed as one, and then was happily swept away be the melodic optimism of the music.” — The Strad
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Orion Weiss Plays Ravel Edo de Waart conductor | Orion Weiss piano Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80
Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major
Stravinsky Petrouchka (1947 version) “When you’re named after one of the biggest constellations in the night sky, the pressure is on to display star power — and Orion Weiss did exactly that… Virtuosity to spare,” raves The Washington Post. Orion Weiss plays Maurice Ravel’s jazz-inspired Piano Concerto in G, and Edo de Waart conducts Stravinsky’s colorful music for the ballet Petrouchka. 6B
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Beethoven Festival 21 – 23 ma rch 2014
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Edo de Waart conductor | Christopher Maltman baritone MSO Chorus Lee Erickson, director John Adams
The Wound-Dresser
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
The de Waart/Milwaukee Beethoven Festival begins. Hear, live in concert, the timeless message of humanity and brotherhood when Edo de Waart leads Beethoven’s inspiring and monumental Ode to Joy, The Ninth Symphony. Plus, John Adams’s tender setting of Walt Whitman’s Civil War prose, The Wound-Dresser. 6B
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Beethoven Fest 28 – 30 ma rch 2014
Beethoven: “Eroica” Symphony Edo de Waart conductor
Stravinsky Concerto in D major for String Orchestra John Adams Chamber Symphony Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 Be there at the historic Pabst Theater to experience Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra perform one of Beethoven’s towering achievements. Hear the mighty Symphony No.3, the Eroica, with path-breaking works of Stravinsky and Adams. 6
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Edo de Waart conductor | Jorja Fleezanis violin Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 revision)
John Adams Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 The Seventh Symphony. Its propulsive power and energy ranks it as one of Beethoven’s greatest achievements. Enduring for almost two centuries. Hear it conducted by Edo de Waart live at the gorgeous Pabst Theater, as works of Stravinsky and Adams illuminate Beethoven’s masterpiece.
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18 + 19 Ap r il 2014
Romeo & Juliet
Rossen Milanov conductor | Frank Almond violin
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21 Chausson
Poème for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25
Bartók
Rhapsody No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra
Prokofiev
Selections from Romeo and Juliet
The greatest moments from Prokofiev’s greatest ballet — the ardent Romeo and Juliet. Then, Mendelssohn is inspired by Shakespeare in his enchanting A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Plus, violin showpieces by Bartók and Chausson with Concertmaster Frank Almond. 6
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26 + 27 Ap r il 2014
All Rachmaninoff Edo de Waart conductor | Joyce yang piano
Rachmaninoff Prince Rostislav Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 A sell-out season after season — and an Edo de Waart specialty. This season’s all-Rachmaninoff extravaganza pairs two late pieces — the lavish Symphony No. 3, and rapturous Piano Concerto No. 4. Joyce Yang returns to complete her Milwaukee/Rachmaninoff concerto cycle. 6C
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3 may 2014
De Waart Conducts Mahler Edo de Waart conductor
Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor “Not one of his works came so directly from his inmost heart as this,” wrote Alma Mahler of her husband’s Symphony No.6. Be there at Uihlein Hall, when Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony perform Gustav Mahler’s heart-wrenching Symphony No. 6.
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31 May – 1 ju ne 2014
Divine Dvoˇrák
Gilbert Varga conductor | Susan Babini cello
Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 Dvořák
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances are among the most joyous music in the repertoire. Exuberant in one moment, poignant in the next — and ever energetic and colorful. These concerts also feature Robert Schumann’s rhapsodic Cello Concerto with Susan Babini. “A beacon of clarity,” enthused The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Season Finale 6 – 8 Ju ne 2014
Boléro
Gilbert Varga conductor Karen Gomyo violin Mozart
Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 BartÓk
Suite from The Wooden Prince, Op. 13
Ravel
Boléro
It begins softly. A single snare drum. Then, a flute. Gradually, each instrument of the Milwaukee Symphony joins in. One after the other. Until Ravel’s Boléro reaches one of the greatest climaxes in all of music. And the smoldering Karen Gomyo performs Tchaikovsky’s sizzling Violin Concerto. She “played with golden radiance,” raved the Sydney Morning News.
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27 September 2013
20 September 2013
Roberto Abbado, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Andreas Delfs, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
Seductive Ravel 22 November 2013
Schubert’s Sixth
Hans Graf, conductor MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
17 January 2014
Brahms’ s “Fifth” Edo de Waart, conductor Jennifer Koh, violin
31 January 2014
Radu Lupu
Leonard Bernstein— “On the Town”
21 February 2014
21 March 2014
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Andreas Brantelid, cello
Edo de Waart, conductor MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
24 January 2014 Edo de Waart, conductor Radu Lupu, piano
Transcendent Sibelius
Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Kathleen Kim, soprano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
28 March 2014
4 April 2014
Edo de Waart, conductor
Edo de Waart, conductor Jorja Fleezanis, violin
18 April 2014
6 June 2014
Rossen Milanov, conductor Frank Almond, violin
Gilbert Varga, conductor Karen Gomyo, violin
Beethoven: “Eroica” Symphony Friday evening performances sponsored by the United Performing Arts Fund and Chase.
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
Romeo & Juliet
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Season Finale: Boléro
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28 September 2013
5 October 2013
Andreas Delfs, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
Roberto Abbado, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Asher Fisch, conductor Todd Levy, clarinet
23 November 2013
16 November 2013
18 January 2014
Hans Graf, conductor MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Edo de Waart, conductor Ingrid Fliter, piano
Edo de Waart, conductor Jennifer Koh, violin
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Schubert’s Sixth 25 January 2014
Radu Lupu
Edo de Waart, conductor Radu Lupu, piano
5 April 2014
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Edo de Waart, conductor Jorja Fleezanis, violin
19 April 2014
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Seductive Ravel
Fliter Plays Chopin
Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Kathleen Kim, soprano
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Andreas Brantelid, cello
Transcendent Sibelius
1 March 2014
29 March 2014
Edo de Waart, conductor Orion Weiss, piano
Edo de Waart, conductor
Orion Weiss Plays Ravel
3 May 2014
Edo de Waart, conductor MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Edo de Waart, conductor
Brahms’s “Fifth” 22 February 2014
Leonard Bernstein — “On the Town”
22 March 2014
De Waart Conducts Mahler
Concertos for Orchestra
1 February 2014
Romeo & Juliet Rossen Milanov, conductor Frank Almond, violin Saturday evening performances sponsored by the United Performing Arts Fund and Rockwell Automation.
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 31 May 2014
Divine Dvoˇrák Gilbert Varga, conductor Susan Babini, cello
Beethoven: “Eroica” Symphony 26 April 2014
All-Rachmaninoff Edo de Waart, conductor Joyce Yang, piano
7 June 2014
Season Finale: Boléro Gilbert Varga, conductor Karen Gomyo, violin
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21 September 2013
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Andreas Delfs, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
5 October 2013
Concertos for Orchestra Asher Fisch, conductor Todd Levy, clarinet
23 November 2013
Schubert’s Sixth
Hans Graf, conductor MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
25 January 2014
28 September 2013
Seductive Ravel
Roberto Abbado, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
16 November 2013
Fliter Plays Chopin Edo de Waart, conductor Ingrid Fliter, piano
18 January 2014
Brahms’s “Fifth” Edo de Waart, conductor Jennifer Koh, violin
Radu Lupu
1 February 2014
22 February 2014
Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Kathleen Kim, soprano
Edo de Waart, conductor Radu Lupu, piano
Transcendent Sibelius Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Andreas Brantelid, cello
22 March 2014
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Edo de Waart, conductor MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
5 April 2014
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Edo de Waart, conductor Jorja Fleezanis, violin
26 April 2014
All-Rachmaninoff
Leonard Bernstein— “On the Town” 1 March 2014
Orion Weiss Plays Ravel Edo de Waart, conductor Orion Weiss, piano
29 March 2014
Beethoven:“Eroica” Symphony Edo de Waart, conductor
19 April 2014
Romeo & Juliet Rossen Milanov, conductor Frank Almond, violin
3 May 2014
Edo de Waart, conductor Joyce Yang, piano
De Waart Conducts Mahler
7 June 2014
31 May 2014
Gilbert Varga, conductor Karen Gomyo, violin
Gilbert Varga, conductor Susan Babini, cello
Season Finale: Boléro
Edo de Waart, conductor
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Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Andreas Delfs, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
24 November 2013
Schubert’s Sixth
Hans Graf, conductor MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
23 March 2014
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Edo de Waart, conductor MSO Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
27 April 2014
All-Rachmaninoff Edo de Waart, conductor Joyce Yang, piano
1 June 2014
Divine Dvoˇrák Sunday matinee performances sponsored by the United Performing Arts Fund and Johnson Controls.
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Gilbert Varga, conductor Susan Babini, cello
8 June 2014
Season Finale: Boléro Gilbert Varga, conductor Karen Gomyo, violin
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2013.14 Classics Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
Andreas Delfs, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano
Seductive Ravel
Roberto Abbado, conductor Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D major Augustin Hadelich, violin Ravel Daphnis et Chloé Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Lee Erickson, director
Aaron Jay Kernis Musica Celestis Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
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Concertos for Orchestra
Asher Fisch, conductor Todd Levy, clarinet
Wagner Overture to Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
10.05
Fliter Plays Chopin
Edo de Waart, conductor Ingrid Fliter, piano
Michael Ippolito Nocturne for Orchestra Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
11.16
Schubert’s Sixth
Hans Graf, conductor Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543 Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Schubert Mass No. 6 in E-flat major, D. 950 Lee Erickson, director
Brahms’s “Fifth”
Edo de Waart, conductor Jennifer Koh, violin
Radu Lupu
11.22
11.23
Bach Ricercare No. 2 from Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (orch: Webern) Berg Violin Concerto Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (orch: Schoenberg)
01.17
01.18
Edo de Waart, conductor Radu Lupu, piano
Schumann Manfred Overture, Op. 115 James Macmillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
01.24
01.25
Leonard Bernstein — “On the Town”
Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Kathleen Kim, soprano
Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from On the Town Foss Time Cycle Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 Bernstein On the Waterfront Symphonic Suite
01.31
02.01
Transcendent Sibelius
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Andreas Brantelid, cello
Nielsen Helios Overture, Op. 17 Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 Sibelius Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
02.21
02.22
Orion Weiss Plays Ravel
Edo de Waart, conductor Orion Weiss, piano
Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80 Ravel Piano Concerto in G major Stravinsky Petrouchka (1947 version)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Edo de Waart, conductor John Adams The Wound-Dresser Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Lee Erickson, director
At the Pabst—
Edo de Waart, conductor
11.24
03.01
03.21
03.22
Stravinsky Concerto in D major for String Orchestra John Adams Chamber Symphony Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55
03.28
03.29
Edo de Waart, conductor Jorja Fleezanis, violin
Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version) John Adams Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
04.04
04.05
Rossen Milanov, conductor Frank Almond, violin
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21 Chausson Poème for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25 Bartók Rhapsody No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra Prokofiev Selections from Romeo and Juliet
04.18
04.19
All-Rachmaninoff
Edo de Waart, conductor Joyce Yang, piano
Rachmaninoff Prince Rostislav Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44
04.26
De Waart: Mahler
Edo de Waart, conductor
Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor
05.03
Divine Dvoˇrák
Gilbert Varga, conductor Susan Babini, cello
Elgar Serenade for Strings Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 29 Dvořák Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
05.31
06.01
Season Finale: Boléro
Gilbert Varga, conductor Karen Gomyo, violin
Mozart Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, (The Marriage of Figaro) K. 492 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Bartók Suite from The Wooden Prince, Op. 13 Ravel Boléro
06.07
06.08
Beethoven: “Eroica” Symphony At the Pabst—
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Romeo & Juliet
06.06
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03.23
04.27
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