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About this Performance:

Mehta reveals his deep affinity for Mahler in one of the composer’s most overwhelmingly transcendent works. The climax of the ecstatic finale is deeply stirring and unforgettable.

Program:

MAHLER Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"

Artists

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Kristin Lewis, soprano

Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Grant Gershon, Artistic Director

About this Performance:

Trifonov has the reputation of taking a beloved classic like Tchaikovsky’s popular Piano Concerto and imbuing it with fresh new life. L.A. favorite Michael Tilson Thomas also leads Copland’s Third Symphony, built on the composer’s stirring Fanfare for the Common Man. 

Program:

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Dubinushka

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 

COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Artists:

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Daniil Trifonov, piano

About this Performance:

To honor the memory of our talented and beloved colleague Oliver Knussen, Mälkki and Josefowicz have programmed three of his remarkable creations and surrounded them with chamber-sized music by his friends, colleagues, and his students. Come celebrate a musical life.

Program:

Colin MATTHEWS Hidden Variables

KNUSSEN Reflection

Helen GRIME A Cold Spring

Huw WATKINS Piano Quartet

KNUSSEN Ophelia Dances Book 1

KNUSSEN Two Organa

HARVEY Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco

Artists:

LA Phil New Music Group

Susanna Mälkki, conductor

Leila Josefowicz, violin

John Novacek, piano

Co-curated by Susanna Mälkki and Leila Josefowicz

About this Performance:

The late Oliver Knussen, acclaimed as composer and conductor, had a long connection with the LA Phil. His Violin Concerto is, by turns, intensely dramatic, lyrical, somber, skittish, and – as you would expect from a skilled conductor – it’s masterfully orchestrated. Thrilling to this day, Beethoven’s “Eroica” is one of the most revolutionary works in Western music, expanding the Classical symphony in almost every way imaginable.

Program:

KNUSSEN Violin Concerto

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”

Artists:

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Susanna Mälkki, conductor

Leila Josefowicz, violin

About this Performance:

The fast-rising Korean star pianist plays Rachmaninoff’s ultra-Romantic concerto, and Dudamel leads Stravinsky’s game-changing ballet score with its complex yet primitive-sounding rhythms.

Program:

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Artists:

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Seong-Jin Cho, piano

About this Performance:

The incomparable Yuja Wang plays John Adams’ newest piano concerto, and Gustavo presides over Stravinsky’s pulse-pounding vision of pre-historic Russian rituals.

Artists:

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

Yuja Wang, piano

Program:

GINASTERA: Variaciones Concertantes

John ADAMS: Must the Devil have all the Good Tunes? (LA Phil commission)

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring

Los Angeles-based composer and pianist Thomas Kotcheff is joined by composer Sky Macklay, pianist and composer Eric Wubbels, and cellist Jay Campbell to discuss the first Green Umbrella program of the season, including new works by Macklay, Wubbels, Gabriella Smith, Marc Sabat, and Tristan Perich.

About This Performance:

Adams and astonishing star-on-the-rise Jay Campbell present a scintillating cello-focused Green Umbrella.

Program:

Gabriella SMITH - Carrot Revolution for string quartet

Marc SABAT - Partite Requiem (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

Eric WUBBELS - gretchen am spinnrade

Intermission

Sky MACKLAY - Swarm Collecting (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts Initiative)

Tristan PERICH - Formations for solo cello and electronics  

Artists:

LA Phil New Music Group

John Adams, Conductor

Jay Campbell, cello

Eric Wubbels, piano

Co-curated by John Adams and Jay Campbell

TUE / NOV 5, 2019 - 8:00PM

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Caltech professor and organist Thomas Neenan is joined by organ builder Manuel Rosales to discuss Jane Parker-Smith's recital program, which includes Bach, Franck, Liszt, and more.

About this Performance:

Having been referred to as the “Martha Argerich of the organ” (The Sunday Times), British organist Jane Parker-Smith has gained an international reputation for her prodigious technique and innate interpretative ability, making her one of the most sought-after organists in the world.

Artists

Jane Parker-Smith, organ

Program

BACH (arr. Fox) - “Nun danket alle Gott,” from Cantata No. 79, BWV 79

César FRANCK -

About This Performance:

Experience Dudamel conducting Bruckner’s awe-inspiring Fourth Symphony, to which Bruckner himself applied the nickname “Romantic,” evoking images of knights riding forth at dawn, impassioned lovers, and an exuberant hunting party, all tied together by a heroic, brass-blazing finale. 

Program:

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4, “Romantic”

Artists:

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

FRI / NOV 1, 2019 – 8:00PM

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