In this London-oriented program, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in the American premiere of the first of several BSO co-commissions this season, English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage's Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield. Evan, son of the great jazz guitarist and Turnage collaborator John Scofield, died of cancer at age twenty-five. The piece was co-commissioned by the BSO with the Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra. Opening the program is Haydn's Symphony No. 93, one of the first of the group of bold, innovative symphonies he wrote for performance in London during his visits there in the early 1790s. The English composer Edward Elgar's tour-de-force of orchestral and expressive imagination, the Enigma Variations, is a series of widely varied portraits of his friends via transformations of a common musical theme.

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage chats with Brian Bell about his “Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield”, receiving its’ American premiere on November 1, 3, and 6, 2018.

English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Remembering: In Memoriam Evan Scofield"- Evan, son of the great jazz guitarist and Turnage collaborator John Scofield, died of cancer at age twenty-five.

The English composer Edward Elgar's tour-de-force of orchestral and expressive imagination, the "Enigma" Variations, is on the program November 1-6.

Video produced by Anthony Princiotti

Composer John Harbison and BSO Associate Conductor Ken-David Masur speak with Brian Bell about “Remembering Gatsby” being performed October 18-23, 2018, and other event’s surrounding Harbison’s 80th birthday this December.

BSO Associate Conductor Ken-David Masur is joined by outstanding American pianist Garrick Ohlsson for a work heard relatively rarely despite the popularity of its composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1. The early First Concerto exhibits the same spirit of Russian lyricism and virtuosity found in his perennially popular Second and Third concertos. Opening the program is John Harbison's Jazz Age-flavored foxtrot "Remembering Gatsby", an orchestral work foreshadowing his acclaimed opera based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". This is one of several Harbison works this season celebrating the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston-based composer's 80th birthday year. Closing the program are excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet score "Romeo and Juliet", which includes some of the composer's best-known music.

BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler's all-embracing ninety-minute Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, along with Chinese soprano Ying Fang and Argentine-born mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink. The third movement is a setting of "Urlicht," a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a source of texts for many of Mahler's songs, and the vast finale includes a setting for chorus and soprano of verses from Klopstock's poem "Resurrection." James Burton will conduct Maija Einfelde's Lux aeterna, for mixed chorus, the first of two Latvian works performed this year to mark the centenary of the country's independence.

Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra-a work commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky and premiered by the BSO in 1944-anchors this season-opening program highlighting the virtuosity of the orchestra's string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections. Acclaimed Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu, making his BSO debut, conducts that work, as well as Stravinsky's piquant Symphonies of Wind Instruments and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings.

A deeper look into Prokofiev's famed ballet score Romeo and Juliet, which includes some of the composer's best-known music. The work is on the program on October 18-23.

Video produced by Anthony Princiotti.

A short introduction to Stravinsky's piquant Symphonies of Wind Instruments; on the program on October 11-13. Video produced by Anthony Princiotti.

A short introduction to Prokofiev's famed ballet score Romeo and Juliet, which includes some of the composer's best-known music. The work is on the program on October 18-23.

Video produced by Anthony Princiotti.