Mitsuko Uchida, one of the world’s great Mozart pianists, joins Dudamel for a sublime program.
Dudamel Conducts Mozart
Playlist
All music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620
Piano Concerto No. 27
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Dudamel Leads Beethoven and Smith
Experience the exhilaration of Beethoven’s dance Symphony, his Seventh, and a new cello concerto by Gabriella Smith.
Playlist
Ellen Reid: West Coast Sky Eternal
World premiere, LA Phil commission
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
World premiere, LA Phil commission
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Beethoven & Strauss
Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto, and Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen concludes with the waltz-filled Der Rosenkavalier Suite.
Playlist
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Anna Thorvaldsdóttir: ARCHORA
US premiere, LA Phil commission
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Dvořák and Bruckner
LA Phil’s Principal Concertmaster performs the great Dvořák concerto, and the Music Director of the Vienna State Opera leads Anton Bruckner’s epic 7th Symphony.
Playlist
Antonín Dvořák: Violin Concerto
Martin Chalifour, violin
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Elim Chan & Leila Josefowicz
Josefowicz takes on Thomas Adès’ “Concentric Paths” Violin Concerto. The high-powered Elim Chan leads music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Clarice Assad.
Playlist
Clarice Assad: Boitatá, new overture
World premiere, LA Phil commission
Thomas Adès: Violin Concerto “Concentric Paths”
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Tianyi Lu & Sunwook Kim
Sunwook Kim is the soloist in Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Conductor Tianyi Lu rounds out the program with works by Anna Clyne and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Playlist
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto
Sunwook Kim, piano
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Payare & Röschmann
Guest conductor Rafael Payare leads music by William Grant Still and Johannes Brahms before welcoming German soprano Dorothea Röschmann to perform Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.
Playlist
William Grant Still: Darker America
Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Dorothea Röschmann, soprano
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Dalia Stasevka & Randall Goosby
Two fast-rising stars, conductor Dalia Stasevska and violinist Randall Goosby, team up for a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. We also hear works by Jean Sibelius and contemporary Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi.
Playlist
Andrea Tarrodi: Liguria
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Randall Goosby, violin
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Mehta Conducts Crumb & Berlioz
LA Phil conductor emeritus Zubin Mehta conducts the orchestra, soprano Sophia Burgos, and boy soprano Sebastian Dolinar in music by George Crumb and Hector Berlioz.
Playlist
George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Lamsma Plays Bruch
Simone Lamsma joins the LA Phil and guest conductor Otto Tausk to play Bruch’s landmark first violin concerto. We also hear a world premiere LA Phil commission by Helen Grim and a Brahms staple.
Playlist
Helen Grime: Meditations on Joy (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Simone Lamsma, violin
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3
