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/
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| 0 events, | 1 event, | 1 event, The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Kazuki Hamada (making his debut with the orchestra), will give the U.S. premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Entwine Nov. 27-Dec. 1. Young piano star Yunchan Lim plays Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 in this program that ends with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/lim-yamada/ | 0 events, | 1 event, The Dallas Symphony will present the U.S. premiere of Kris Bowers’ For a Younger Self, featuring violinist Charles Yang. Markus Moschner also conducts Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, From the New World, in this Nov. 29-Dec. 1 program. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/dvoraks-new-world-symphony-2/ | 0 events, | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, On Dec. 4-5, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec will perform both Strauss’ Thus Spoke Zarathustra and a work created in answer to it, Katia Makdissi-Warren’s Thus Sang Simorgh, which will feature three Turkish musicians/dancers in the Sufi tradition. In this program conducted by Clemens Schuldt, Vadim Gluzman plays the Tchaikovsky violin Concerto, and the orchestra […] | 1 event, 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 […] | 4 events, 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 Fort Worth Symphony presents the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Earth 2.0 on Dec. 6-8, under the baton of music director Robert Spano. The work uses a libretto by Anita Amirrezvani and features countertenor Key’mon Murrah with dancers from New York-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, completes the program. […] Worcester Chamber Music will present J.S. Bach’s “Christmas Cantata” (BWVs 32, 151, 132) on Dec. 6. The program is a collaboration with Music Worcester’s The Complete Bach, an 11-year project to present all of J.S. Bach’s music in advance of his 350th birthday. https://worcesterchambermusic.org/bach-christmas-cantatas/ Steve Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder will receive its Canadian Premiere on Dec. 6 with the Vancouver Symphony, conducted by music director Otto Tausk and featuring Synergy Vocals. The program includes works by two important Reich colleagues: John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons and Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 11. A Canadian composer, Linda Catlin Smith, opens the concert with […] | 0 events, | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, 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/ | 0 events, | 1 event, Brother-sister team Sheku (cello) and Isata (piano) Kanneh-Mason will play the New York premiere of a new work by British violinist and composer Natalie Klouda. The Dec. 15 Carnegie Hall program also includes cello sonatas by Fauré, Poulenc, and Mendelssohn. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/12/15/Sheku-KannehMason-Cello-Isata-KannehMason-Piano-0200PM |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, A new guitar concerto by Nicky Sohn will receive its world premiere with the Albany Symphony on Dec. 21-22, with Bokyung Byun as soloist. David Alan Miller conducts this program, which also features popular orchestral works by Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2024/12/21/nicky-sohn-holiday-mozart-amp-vivaldi | 0 events, |
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