On its North American tour, the Berlin Philharmonic will stop at Chicago’s Symphony Center on Nov. 26 to mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth. Kirill Petrenko will conduct one of the composer’s grandest works, his Fifth Symphony. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/scp-featured-concerts/berliner-philharmoniker/
The Minnesota Orchestra’s Dec. 5-6 program focuses on transcriptions of the music of J.S. Bach. Mandolinist Avi Avital will perform versions of two Bach concertos, and Jordan De Souza will conduct a selection of orchestrated organ works and cantata movements. To show Bach’s influence, the program includes homages to that master by Mahler, Pärt, and […]
Three Pittsburgh Symphony premieres will be performed on Dec. 6-8 when music director Manfred Honeck leads his own arrangement of Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, Reena Esmail’s RE|Member, and Adolphus Hailstork’s Lachrymosa. The second half of the program is Fauré’s Requiem with Jeanine De Bique, Joshua Hopkins, and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92952/sparks-fly-voices-soar-brahms-and-faure
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will perform five of Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos (all but No. 2) on Dec. 13-15, under the direction of Richard Egarr. https://content.thespco.org/events/bachs-brandenburg-concertos-with-richard-egarr-2425/
