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Original broadcast date: March 23, 2024
Hector Berlioz Overture from Beatrice and Benedict
Julia Wolfe Pretty (First SLSO performance | SLSO co-commission)
Intermission interviews with:
Stéphane Denève, Music Director
Tom Borrow, piano
Christopher Stark, composer and curator of Live at the Pultizer series
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”
Upcoming Broadcasts
Broadcasts of concerts from the 2023/2024 season will take place from the Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Hosted by Rod Milam and Lauren Eldridge Stewart, broadcasts include interviews with artists at intermission.
April 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Stéphane Denève, conductor
David Halen, violin
Members of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus
W.A. Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2
The concert was originally broadcast on February 9, 2019. Intermission interviews include Stéphane Denève, David Halen, and SLSO President and CEO Marie-Hélène Bernard.
May 4, 2024, 7:30pm
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Piotr Anderszewski, piano
Gabriela Lena Frank Apu (First SLSO performance)
Bela Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
The concert was originally broadcast on April 29, 2023. Intermission interviews include Stéphane Denève, Piotr Anderszewski, and SLSO Principal Violist Beth Guterman Chu.
Most Recent Releases
Bernstein and Williams
The album, Stéphane Denève’s first recordings with the SLSO, revolve around love: Bernstein’s Serenade was inspired by musings on love from Plato’s Symposium while Williams’ work was arguably inspired and eventually dedicated to his suddenly deceased wife. By combining these two concert pieces, this album centers the symphonic work of Bernstein and Williams, two composers closely associated with their music for films.
- Release Date: April 2024
- Artists: Stéphane Denève, conductor | James Ehnes, violin
- Repertoire: Leonard Bernstein, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium | John Williams, Violin Concerto No. 1
Mozart: Piano Concerto Nos. 17 & 24
The album’s selected works stand as emblems of the extraordinary theatricality of Mozart’s piano concertos as performed by Orli Shaham, conducted by David Robertson. Each highlights the spirit of dialogue between soloist and orchestra, the ever-shifting exchange of musical ideas, colors, and textures used by Mozart to create a world of limitless dramatic possibilities.
- Release Date: August 2019
- Artists: David Robertson, conductor | Orli Shaham, piano
- Repertoire: W.A. Mozart, Piano Concerto Nos. 17, K. 453 and 24, K. 491
Marsalis: Swing Symphony
Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony — a musical manifesto on American ideals and the melding of jazz and classical — captures the 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis joining forces with the SLSO, conducted by former Music Director David Robertson, in performances of Swing Symphony in front of the sold-out crowds at Powell Hall in St. Louis on May 4-6, 2018.
- Release Date: July 2019
- Artists: David Robertson, conductor | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
- Repertoire: Wynton Marsalis, Swing Symphony
Adams: Violin Concerto
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with former Music Director David Robertson are featured on a new recording of John Adams’ Violin Concerto with violinist Leila Josefowicz, released by Nonesuch Records. It was described by the Boston Globe as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer and his work; this time Adams also mingles virtuoso show with soul, popular appeal with the staying power that comes from intellectual interest.”
- Release Date: April 2018
- Artists: David Robertson, conductor | Leila Josefowicz, violin
- Repertoire: John Adams, Violin Concerto
The Gershwin Moment
Pianist Kirill Gerstein releases The Gershwin Moment: Rhapsody in Blue & Concerto in F recorded live with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and former Music Director David Robertson. Gerstein is particularly enthusiastic about the partnership with SLSO and Robertson, with whom he has a long and varied history of collaboration.
- Release Date: February 2018
- Artists: David Robertson, conductor | Kirill Gerstein, piano
- Repertoire: George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (original Jazz Band version) and Piano Concerto in F
Adams: Scheherazade.2
Leila Josefowicz began her recording collaboration with the SLSO with John Aadms’ Scheherazade.2, an homage to the orchestral masterpiece by Rimsky-Korsakov with nearly the same name. Josefowicz received a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for her performance on the album.
- Release Date: September 2016
- Artists: David Robertson, conductor | Leila Josefowicz, violin
- Repertoire: John Adams, Scheherazade.2
Adams: City Noir / Saxophone Concerto
This recording garnered the SLSO’s seventh Grammy® for the Best Orchestral Performance of 2014. Recorded live at Powell Hall by the SLSO under the direction of former Music Director David Robertson with saxophonist Timothy McAllister, this recording features two works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams.
- Release Date: May 2014
- Artists: David Robertson, conductor | Timothy McAllister, saxophone
- Repertoire: John Adamas, City Noir and Saxophone Concerto
Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony
The premiere recordings of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams’ Doctor Atomic Symphony and Guide to Strange Places, are performed live at Powell Hall by the SLSO under the direction of former Music Director David Robertson. Doctor Atomic is a suite of music from the composer’s acclaimed opera of the same name.
- Release Date: July 2009
- Artists: David Robertson, conductor
- Repertoire: John Adams Doctor Atomic Symphony and Guide to Strange Places
Adams: Harmonielehre
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of John Adams’ Harmonielehre, the weekend of March 16-18, 2007, remains one of the extraordinary collaborations between former Music Director David Robertson and the SLSO. They owned it. And you can own it too, with this digital-only release of SLSO’s Harmonielehre available for download.
- Release Date: March 2008
- Artists: David Robertson, conductor | St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Amy Kaiser, director
- Repertoire: John Adams Harmonielehre