St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Live Broadcasts

St. Louis Public Radio produces and broadcasts concerts on Saturday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., during the regular St. Louis Symphony Orchestra season.

Most concerts are available on the SLSO website for 30 days following the broadcast. Program Notes for past broadcasts are also available to browse.

Production Team

  • Lauren Eldridge Stewart
    Lauren Eldridge Stewart (Host)
    Assistant Professor of Music at Washington University
  • Rod Milam
    Rod Milam (Host)
    STLPR Announcer
  • Jonathan Ahl
    Jonathan Ahl (Guest Host)
    STLPR Newscast Editor and Rolla Correspondent
  • Mary Edwards
    Mary Edwards (Producer)
    “St. Louis Symphony” Producer
A St. Louis Symphony performance at Powel Hall.

Upcoming Concert

Pianist Yefim Bronfman

September 26, 2026 Live Broadcast

Music Director Stéphane Denève will lead the orchestra in Hector Berlioz’ Roman Carnival Overture; Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman (pictured), Andrea Tarrodi’s Liguria and Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome.

During the intermission we will talk with Stéphane Denève and Yefim Bronfman.

Program Notes Noted Program Book

2026-2027 Season Schedule

September 26, 2026

Hector Berlioz’ Roman Carnival Overture; Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yefim Bronfman, piano; Andrea Tarrodi’s Liguria; Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome. Stéphane Denève conducts.

October 3, 2026

Anna Meredith’s Nautilus; Jean Sibelius’ Scene with Cranes; Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs with Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano and nyckelharpa; Traditional/arr. Patoulidou’s Kalevala Melody; Sibelius’ Luonnotar with Patoulidou; Claude Debussy’s La Mer. Dalia Stasevska conducts (recorded October 2, 2026).

October 17, 2026

Ülo Krigul’s Proteus Plus; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 with Marie-Ange Nguci, piano; Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish.” Kristiina Poska conducts.

October 31, 2026

George Walker’s Folksongs for Orchestra; Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Julia Bullock, soprano; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral.” Stéphane Denève conducts.

November 7, 2026

Michael Tilson Thomas’ Agnegram; Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Daniil Trifonov, piano; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Stéphane Denève conducts.

November 14, 2026

Felix Mendelssohn’s Psalm 114 (When Israel out of Egypt Came) and Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Erin Freeman, director. David Afkham conducts.

November 28, 2026

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead; Alexander Glazunov’s Violin Concerto with Himari, violin; Modest Mussorgsky / orch. Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition. John Storgårds conducts.

December 5, 2026

Kaija Saariaho’s Lumière et Pesanteur (Light and Gravity); Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Jeremy Denk, piano; Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. Dinis Sousa conducts.

December 31, 2026

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s New Year’s Eve Celebration

Ring in 2027 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Aubrey Logan, vocalist and trombone. Samuel Hollister conducts.

January 9, 2027

Detlev Glanert’s Vexierbild. (Hidden Image.); Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with James Ehnes, violin; Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. Stéphane Denève conducts.

January 16, 2027

Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes (Southern Portraits); Kris Bowers’ For a Younger Self (Violin Concerto) with Charles Yang, violín; Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. Paolo Bortolameolli, conducts.

January 30, 2027

Mel Bonis’ Salomé from Trois femmes de légende; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Yeol Eum Son, piano; Richard Strauss’ / arr. Manfred Honeck/Tomáš Ille Elektra Symphonic Suite. Anja Bihlmaier conducts.

February 6, 2027

Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse macabre; Guillaume Connesson’s Cello Concerto with Johannes Moser, cello; Sergei Prokofiev’s Selections from Waltz Suite and Scythian Suite. Stéphane Denève conducts.

February 13, 2027

Francis Poulenc’s Gloria with Sarah Aristidou, soprano; Maurice Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells) with Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano (L’Enfant); Marianne Lambert (Bergère, Une pastourelle, La Chouette, La Chauve-souris), soprano; Elliot Madore (L’Horloge, Comtoise, Le Chat), baritone; Nicholas Newton (Le Fauteuil, L’Arbre), bass-baritone; Sara Couden (Maman, La Tasse, La Libellule), contralto; Angel Raii Gomez (Le petite vieillard, La rainette, La théière), tenor; Sarah Mesko (La Chatte, L’Ecureuil, Patre), mezzo-soprano, the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Erin Freeman, director and members of the St. Louis Children’s Choirs, Dr. Alyson Moore, artistic director. Stéphane Denève conducts.

February 27, 2027

Kevin Puts’ Bassoon Concerto with Andrew Cuneo, bassoon; Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. David Danzmayr, conducts.

March 13, 2027

Aaron Copland’s Our Town; John Adams’ Frenzy: a short symphony; Wynton Marsalis’ Symphony No. 5, “Liberty” with Kevin Short, bass-baritone and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Teddy Abrams conducts.

March 20, 2027

Joseph Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (Mass for Troubled Times) with Lauren Snouffer, soprano, Kayleigh Decker, mezzo-soprano, Paul Appleby, tenor, Ben Brady, bass-baritone and the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Erin Freeman, director; Gabriela Ortiz’s Revolución diamantina (Glitter Revolution) with the St. Louis Symphony Chorus. Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts.

April 3, 2027

Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violin; Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. Stéphane Denève conducts.

April 10, 2027

Carlos Simon’s “Wake Up!” Concerto for Orchestra; Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with Scott Andrews, clarinet; Christopher Stark’s Violin Concerto “Vesper Flight” with Erin Schreiber, violin; Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Stéphane Denève conducts.

April 17, 2027

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasía on Greensleeves; Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 6; Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with Olga Kern, piano; Leonard Slatkin conducts (recorded April 16, 2027).

May 1, 2027

Zoltán Kodály’s Dances of Galánta; Roberto Sierra’s Salseando with Pacho Flores, trumpet; Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Domingo Hindoyan conducts.

May 8, 2027

Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano, sopranos and altos of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Erin Freeman, director and St. Louis Children’s Choirs, Dr. Alyson Moore, artistic director. Stéphane Denève conducts (recorded May 7, 2027).