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Hailed for outstanding artistry since 1919, the acclaim of the Los Angeles Philharmonic continues under the leadership of Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel, one of the most exciting young conductors today. Dudamel’s infectious emotional energy wins over the most jaded souls. For his inaugural concert at the Hollywood Bowl, 18,000 people greeted him with a hollering, stamping, pop-star ovation.
Each year, the LA Phil presents these national broadcasts hosted by Brian Lauritzen, giving fresh perspective on orchestral performance today.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic program is part of the WFMT Orchestra Series.
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Korean Premieres & Sunwook Kim
January 5, 2026
Season Finale: South Korea is home to an ever-expanding cohort of inventive composers with fresh ideas and talented performers who have made names for themselves at many of the world’s finest concert halls. In the first of two Seoul Festival programs with the LA Phil, composer Unsuk Chin curates a night showcasing Korean composers and artists who are shaping musical ...
Tchaikovsky & Pereira
December 29, 2025
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony embodies a profound journey, rife with dramatic orchestral color, tumultuous emotions, and passionate themes of fate and triumph. Percussionist-turned-conductor Gustavo Gimeno leads the symphony after guiding the orchestra through the suspenseful brass-filled suite of love and obsession from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo before a world premiere spotlighting two of the LA Phil’s own when Principal Percussionist Matthew Howard ...
All Brahms (Re-broadcast)
December 27, 2025
Leonidas Kavakos takes center stage as the soloist in the Brahms Violin Concerto. Then later, it’s a glorious interpretation of Brahms’ idyllic yet brooding Symphony No. 2 by Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Gershwin & Strauss
December 22, 2025
Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s relationship with Gershwin’s Concerto in F started when the pianist was just 14 years old. Over four decades of performances his love and jazz-infused interpretations have only deepened for a showpiece he says exudes “utter joy” that leaves every member of the audience and orchestra with a “smile on their face.” The opening of Richard Strauss’ Also sprach ...
Ravel & Adolphe
December 15, 2025
Renowned French conductor Ludovic Morlot leads music by Ravel and Granados that captures the spirit of Spanish dances. Seth Parker Woods, the cellist who is “quickly becoming a groundbreaking new-music star in both the avant-garde and pop worlds” (Los Angeles Times), joins the LA Phil for the world premiere of Julia Adolphe’s new concerto.
Beethoven & Dessner (with Esa-Pekka Salonen)
December 8, 2025
For well over two hundred years, the “Eroica” Symphony has been celebrated as one of Beethoven’s greatest works and one of the most revolutionary masterpieces in classical music. Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the LA Philharmonic in this powerful piece of defiance, contrasting it with Debussy’s dreamy and fluid Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Pekka Kuusisto, a fellow Finn and ...
Mozart & Nielsen
December 1, 2025
Written against the backdrop of the First World War, Carl Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony shifts between turbulent and triumphant as two sets of timpani, winds, and strings wage an internal conflict that ends with the universal truth that the composer described as “music is life, and like life, it is inextinguishable.” Los Angeles-native Ryan Bancroft leads the LA Phil in Nielsen’s ...
Tchaikovsky & Schubert
November 24, 2025
Grammy-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich moves fast and furiously through the only violin concerto Tchaikovsky composed, which Hadelich says is the most exhilarating, satisfying, and exhausting piece to perform. “Each one of the suspensions out of which the theme is built feels both pleasant and painful and feels more urgent than the last,” Hadelich writes. Joana Mallwitz revels in the grandness ...
Mahler’s Fifth with Dudamel
November 17, 2025
In the final weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival, Gustavo Dudamel explores the tumultuous relationship of Gustav and Alma Mahler through their music. Their marriage was, at best, “complex,” marked by affairs, an age gap, diminishment, and the death of a child. Alma was a composer in her own right whose career took a back seat at Gustav’s request. At ...
Gustavo Conducts Mahler’s Journey
November 10, 2025
Mahler has been a specialty and obsession throughout Gustavo Dudamel’s career, and in the opening weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival, Dudamel curates and conducts a selection of the composer’s music in Mahler’s Journey. He opens with two excerpts from Mahler’s First and Tenth symphonies that frame the composer’s life. Blumine was the second movement from Symphony No. 1, which ...
Music of Farewells
November 3, 2025
Two beautifully crafted works of classical music centered around death. Then later, Verneri Pohjola performs in the trumpet concerto written specifically for him: it’s Kaija Saariaho’s HUSH, commissioned by the L.A Philharmonic.
Nico Muhly’s Concerto Grosso (World Premiere)
October 27, 2025
Eun Sun Kim leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a world premiere of Nico Muhly’s Concerto Grosso, paired with two masterpieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Composer Favorites (featuring Yefim Bronfman)
October 13, 2025
Philippe Jordan leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a series of crowd-pleasing audience favorites. Renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman joins the orchestra in a rousing rendition of the Beethoven “Emperor” piano concerto. Also on the setlist: Bach’s famous “Air” from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique”.
A Double Dose of Brahms
October 6, 2025
Leonidas Kavakos takes center stage as the soloist in the Brahms Violin Concerto. Then later, it’s a glorious interpretation of Brahms’ idyllic yet brooding Symphony No. 2 by Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Season Finale: Dudamel Leads Mozart and Strauss
September 30, 2024
Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil lead Strauss’ Don Quixote, an epic tone poem that pits the infamous “Man of La Mancha” against a flurry of windmills and wizards, featuring the LA Phil’s Principal Cello Robert deMaine and Principal Viola Teng Li as soloists. Maria João Pires‘s performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.
Bartók and Mozart
September 23, 2024
Effortlessly sailing through its melodic yet meticulous runs, Inon Barnatan demonstrates why No. 25 ranks among Mozart’s top piano concertos.
Schubert and Beethoven
September 16, 2024
Schubert’s epic Sixth Symphony is a rollercoaster of somberness, charm, serenity, and humor, with the wind section shining brightest here.
Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
September 9, 2024
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Music Director Louis Langrée teams up again with acclaimed composer Jonathan Bailey Holland for a world premiere symphony.
Michael Tilson Thomas Leads Tchaikovsky
September 2, 2024
The four tableaus of Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka are vividly brought to life by Michael Tilson Thomas, who actually met the composer in Los Angeles during his youth.
John Adams’ City Noir
August 26, 2024
Timo Andres is a favorite young composer of John Adams, who conducts the world premiere of his concerto Made of Tunes written for pianist Aaron Diehl.
