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About This Performance:
Performed by Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, Beethoven’s timeless Fourth Concerto, with its extraordinarily poetic slow movement, is followed by Beethoven’s noble and majestic final concerto, played for us by Spanish virtuoso Javier Perianes.

This performance was made possible by the Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Great Artists Fund.

Program:
BEETHOVEN : Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Intermission
BEETHOVEN : Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 (“Emperor”)

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Yulianna Avdeeva piano
Javier Perianes piano

THU / MAY 23, 2019 – 8:00PM

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About This Performance:
Dudamel leads Haydn’s magnificent final symphony. Superstar Lang Lang joins in for Beethoven’s first-written, but second-published, piano concerto, a delightful, bracing statement to Vienna that the composer/pianist had arrived.

Program:
BEETHOVEN : Egmont Overture
HAYDN : Symphony No. 104 in D major, “London”
Intermission
BEETHOVEN : Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Lang Lang piano

SUN / MAY 19, 2019 - 2:00PM

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About This Performance:
Salonen continues to intrigue us with a program combining late Mozart and early Beethoven.

Program:
MOZART : Piano Concerto No. 22, in E-flat, K. 482
Intermission
Louis ANDRIESSEN : The only one (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music)
BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Emanuel Ax piano
Nora Fischer vocals

SUN / MAY 5, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
This vivid program of orchestral showpieces contrasts the music of masters of instrumental color and shading, climaxing in Respighi’s popular depiction of Roman pine groves.

The program also includes a work by Donatoni – one of the conductor’s teachers – that Salonen and the LA Phil premiered in 2001. “I love the kaleidoscopic world of Donatoni, the sudden twists and turns and the sheer beauty of the surface of the music,” Salonen said. It also features a showpiece for a widely acclaimed young pianist, the masterpiece Ravel wrote for a pianist who lost his right arm in World War I.

Program:
DEBUSSY : Iberia
RAVEL : Concerto for the Left Hand
Intermission
DONATONI : ESA (In cauda V) (LA Phil commission)
RESPIGHI : Pines of Rome

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Igor Levit piano

SUN / APR 28, 2019 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
Salonen leads two remarkable myth ballets by Stravinsky: Orpheus, the quintessential music myth, and the sensual, sumptuous French setting of Perséphone, goddess of the Underworld. The latter features the surpassing insights and brilliant staging of Peter Sellars.

Program:
STRAVINSKY : Orpheus
STRAVINSKY : Perséphone 

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Peter Sellars director
Paul Groves tenor
Cécilia Tsan narrator
Amrita Performing Arts, Cambodia
Sam Sathya dancer (Perséphone)
Chumvan Sodhachivy dancer (Déméter)
Nam Narim dancer (Mercure, Démophoon, Triptolème)
Khon Chan Sithyka dancer (Pluton)
James F. Ingalls lighting designer
Helene Siebrits costume designer
Frederick Vogler sound designer
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon Artistic Director
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
Fernando Malvar-Ruiz Artistic Director

SAT / APR 20, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
For this afternoon only, you’ll hear a fascinating range of Stravinsky’s sacred vocal works.

Program:
STRAVINSKY : Requiem Canticles; Introitus (TS Eliot in Memoriam); In memoriam Dylan Thomas; Mass; Elegy for JFK; Chorale Variations on “Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her”; Cantata 
No Intermission

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Andrew Staples tenor
Kelley O’Connor mezzo-soprano
Davóne Tines bass-baritone
Heidi Stober soprano
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon Artistic Director

SUN / APR 14, 2019 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
Following Stravinsky’s early memorial for his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov (lost until recently!), Salonen leads two of Stravinsky’s ritualistic ballet scores, concluding with Salonen’s crackling specialty and signature work with the LA Phil, The Rite of Spring.

Program:
STRAVINSKY : Funeral Song
STRAVINSKY : Agon
Intermission
STRAVINSKY : The Rite of Spring

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor

SAT / APR 13, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
“Carpenter is one of the rare musicians who changes the game of his instrument… He is a smasher of cultural and classical music taboos. He is technically the most accomplished organist I have ever witnessed… And, most important of all, the most musical.” (Los Angeles Times)

Program:
BACH : Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532
BACH / Cameron CARPENTER : French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
BACH : Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
BACH : In dulci jubilo, BWV 608
BACH : Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
Intermission
BACH / Cameron CARPENTER : Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Cameron CARPENTER : Serenade and Fugue on B.A.C.H.
Thomas MELLAN : Ballade de l’Impossible
Cameron CARPENTER : Improvisation
BACH : Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

Artists:
Cameron Carpenter organ

SUN / APR 7, 2019 -7:30PM

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About the Performance:
Ever-vibrant conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla covers all the bases with this multifaceted program, beginning with Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, featuring the astonishing Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Mirga also leads the latest by much-lauded South Korean composer Unsuk Chin and Debussy’s masterpiece of orchestral color.

This evening’s performance is made possible in part by the generous support of the Kohl Virtuoso Violin Fund.

Program:
TCHAIKOVSKY : Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Intermission
Unsuk CHIN : SPIRA – A Concerto for Orchestra (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
DEBUSSY : La mer

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin

SUN / APR 7, 2019 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
For one shining moment, Ravel and Gershwin met each other at a New York party in 1928, where they expressed their deep mutual admiration and passion for jazz. Now, two brilliant French artists (and Philharmonic regulars) keep that connection alive with this latter-day meeting of the minds.

Program:
GERSHWIN : Cuban Overture 
RAVEL : Piano Concerto in G 
Intermission
RAVEL : Valses nobles et sentimentales 
GERSHWIN : An American in Paris

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Lionel Bringuier conductor
Hélène Grimaud piano

SUN / MAR 31, 2019 - 2:00PM

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