From Debussy’s La Mer to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, the 2023 season is brimming with orchestral masterpieces you won’t want to miss. An all-Mozart program includes the inventive “Linz,” Michael Christie returns to conduct Tchaikovsky’s fateful Fourth, and Music Director Peter Oundjian closes the season with Mahler’s heroic First Symphony. Explore the full season for even more can’t-miss symphonic masterworks.
Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures
Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures
In his first appearances as 2023 artist-in-residence, the one and only Joshua Bell performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto. The great 19th century violinist Joseph Joachim, to whom the composer dedicated this masterpiece, considered this concerto to...
Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures
Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures
In his first appearances as 2023 artist-in-residence, the one and only Joshua Bell performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto. The great 19th century violinist Joseph Joachim, to whom the composer dedicated this masterpiece, considered this concerto to...
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is famous for being one of the most fiendishly difficult pieces ever composed for the instrument. Pianist Nicolai Lugansky, one of the preeminent Rachmaninoff interpreters of our time, performs here as part of hi...
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is famous for being one of the most fiendishly difficult pieces ever composed for the instrument. Pianist Nicolai Lugansky, one of the preeminent Rachmaninoff interpreters of our time, performs here as part of hi...
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphonic Dances
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphonic Dances
In our second program celebrating the music Rachmaninoff wrote while living in America, the Orchestra performs his final composition: Symphonic Dances, a three-movement suite featuring a frantic dance, a restless waltz, and a final flourish of triump...
Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4
Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4
“Fate, that fatal force” is the driving theme of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, with one of the most brilliant and virtuosic finales in all of music; Music Director Emeritus Michael Christie returns to conduct this mighty symphony. 2022 Sphinx ...
Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4
Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4
“Fate, that fatal force” is the driving theme of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, with one of the most brilliant and virtuosic finales in all of music; Music Director Emeritus Michael Christie returns to conduct this mighty symphony. 2022 Sphinx ...
All Mozart: “Linz” & Violin Concerto No. 3
All Mozart: “Linz” & Violin Concerto No. 3
This concert was created with Mozart fans in mind! Guest conductor François López-Ferrer begins with the delightful overture to Mozart’s tongue-in-cheek opera Impresario, followed by his ornate and impressive Third Violin Concerto, performed here...
Brahms 2 + Shostakovich
Brahms 2 + Shostakovich
Despite the distant threat of rain – “the necessary shadow,” as the composer called it – Brahms’ Second Symphony is a sunny and idyllic work beloved for its rambunctious joy and its balance with that hint of cloud. Eun Sun Kim, a conductor ...
Brahms 2 + Shostakovich
Brahms 2 + Shostakovich
Despite the distant threat of rain – “the necessary shadow,” as the composer called it – Brahms’ Second Symphony is a sunny and idyllic work beloved for its rambunctious joy and its balance with that hint of cloud. Eun Sun Kim, a conductor ...
