During the regular St. Louis Symphony Orchestra season, select concerts are broadcast on 90.7 KWMU on Saturday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Most concerts are available on the SLSO website for 30 days following the broadcast. Program Notes for past broadcasts are also available to browse.
Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin, will lead the orchestra in a program that includes his own work, “Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 25 featuring pianist Emanuel Ax (pictured) and Edward Elgar’s Symphony No. 1.
During the intermission we will talk with Leonard Slatkin, SLSO Concertmaster David Halen and Emanuel Ax.
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Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man; Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1; James Lee III’s Fanfare for Universal Hope; Kevin Puts’ House of Tomorrow with Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. Stéphane Denève conducts.
Leonard Slatkin’s Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 with Emanuel Ax, piano; Edward Elgar’s Symphony No. 1. Leonard Slatkin conducts.
Harald Sæverud’s The Ballad of Revolt; Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with Augustin Hadelich, violin; Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2. Tabita Berglund conducts.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violin; Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. Stéphane Denève conducts.
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with Christine Goerke, soprano, Ian Bostridge, tenor, Roderick Williams, baritone, the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Erin Freeman, director and the St. Louis Children’s Choirs, Dr. Alyson Moore, artistic director. Stéphane Denève conducts (recorded November 7, 2025).
Guillaume Connesson’s Maslenitsa; Aram Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Stéphane Denève conducts.
Béla Bartók’s Dance Suite; Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Joyce Yang, piano; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Kevin John Edusei conducts.
Clara Wieck Schumann’s Three Romances (orch. Benjamin de Murashkin); Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major with Kian Soltani, cello; Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15. John Storgårds conducts.
Handel’s Messiah with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano, Sara Couden, contralto, John Matthew Myers, tenor, Philippe Sly, bass-baritone and the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Erin Freeman, director. Nicholas McGegan conducts.
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Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Overture; Georges Bizet’s Selections from L’Arlésienne; Jacques Offenbach’s (orch. Manuel Rosenthal) Excerpts from Gaité Parisienne; George Gershwin’s (orch. Ferde Grofé) Rhapsody in Blue with Stewart Goodyear, piano; George Gershwin’s (rev. Frank Campbell-Watson) An American in Paris. Stéphane Denève conducts.
Igor Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite with Saint Louis Dance Theatre and choreography by Kirven Douthit-Boyd; Claude Debussy’s Jeux; Albert Roussel’s Suite No. 2 from Bacchus and Ariane. Stéphane Denève conducts.
Lotta Wennäkoski’s Flounce; Jukka Tiensuu’s Teoton (Concerto for Sheng and Orchestra) with Wu Wei, sheng; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Dima Slobodeniouk conducts.
Reena Esmail’s RE/Member; Billy Childs’ Diaspora (Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra) with Steven Banks, saxophone; Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. Xian Zhang conducts.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute with Ben Bliss, tenor (Tamino), Rainelle Krause, coloratura soprano (The Queen of the Night), Will Liverman, baritone (Papageno), David Leigh, bass (Sarastro), Rodell Rosel, tenor (Monostatos), Lauren Snouffer, soprano; William Socolof, bass-baritone, 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 (recorded February 20, 2026).
Steven Mackey’s Turn the Key; David Robertson’s Light Forming, a Piano Concerto with Orli Shahm, piano; Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Something for the Dark; Leonard Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety, Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra with Orli Shaham, piano. David Robertson, conducts.
Grażyna Bacewicz’s Overture; Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz, violin; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Anna Sułkowska-Migoń conducts.
John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Kevin Puts’ Contact with Time for Three Ranaan Meyer, double bass, Nicolas Kendall, violin, Charles Yang, violin); John Williams’ Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Adventures on Earth from E.T. and Selections from Star Wars Suite. Stéphane Denève conducts (recorded March 20, 2026).
Ludwig van Beethoven’s The Consecration of the House Overture; Jasmine Guo’s the sound of where i came from (乡音 Xiāng Yīn’); Kevin Puts’ Concerto for Orchestra; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with Vikingur Ólafsson, piano; Stéphane Denève conducts.
Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto with Hilary Hahn, violin and Seth Parker Woods, cello; Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. Stéphane Denève conducts.
Richard Wagner’s Prelude to Act I from Lohengrin; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, Jeunehomme with Jan Lisiecki, piano; Samy Moussa’s Elysium; Ottorino Respighi’s Church Windows. Hannu Lintu, conducts.
Gabriela Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails; Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Gabriela Montero, piano; Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3. Ryan Bancroft conducts.
Kevin Puts’ Virelai (after Guillaume de Machaut); Nathalie Joachim’s Family with the St. Louis Symphony IN UNISON Chorus, Kevin McBeth, director; Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé with the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Erin Freeman, director. Stéphane Denève conducts.