September 28, 2024 Rebroadcast
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx; Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour; Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique. Stéphane Denève conducted (recorded May 11, 2019 and January 18, 2020).
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.
Guest conductor Cristian Măcelaru (pictured) will lead the orchestra in Antonín Dvořák’s Carnival Overture, Gabriela Lena Frank’s Concertino Cusqueño, Alberto Ginastera’s Variaciones concertantes and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6 (recorded October 4, 2024).
During the intermission we will talk with Cristian Măcelaru and SLSO President and CEO Marie-Hélène Bernard.
Program NotesEsa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx; Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour; Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique. Stéphane Denève conducted (recorded May 11, 2019 and January 18, 2020).
Antonín Dvořák’s Carnival Overture; Gabriela Lena Frank’s Concertino Cusqueño; Alberto Ginastera’s Variaciones concertantes; Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6. Cristian Măcelaru conducts (recorded October 4, 2024).
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade; Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Conrad Tao, piano; James MacMillan’s One; Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, “Reformation.” David Danzmayr conducts.
Cindy McTee’s Timepiece; Domenico Scarlatti’s / arr. Leonard Slatkin Five Sonatas for Orchestral Wind Ensemble; Daniel Slatkin’s Voyager 130 (U.S. Premiere); Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Leonard Slatkin conducts (recorded October 25, 2024).
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No.1, K.16; Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466 with Behzod Abduraimov, piano; Mozart’s Overture to Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87; Anna Clyne’s Within Her Arms; Mozart’s Symphony No. 31, K. 297, “Paris.” Stéphane Denève conducts.
William Grant Still’s Threnody: In Memory of Jean Sibelius; Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yeol Eum Son, piano; Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5. Jonathon Heyward conducts (recorded November 22, 2024).
Samuel Barber’s The School for Scandal Overture; Nina Shekhar’s Accordion Concerto (World Premiere) with Hanzhi Wang, accordion; Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.” Daniela Candillari conducts.
Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite; Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with Kirill Gerstein, piano; Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with Kirill Gerstein, piano; Ravel’s Bolero. Stéphane Denève conducts (recorded January 17, 2025).
Anna Clyne’s PALETTE (World Premiere); Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Nikolai Lugansky, piano; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy. Stéphane Denève conducts.
Outi Tarkiainen’s The Ring of Fire and Love; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491 with Saleem Ashkar, piano; Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. David Afkham conducts (recorded February 21, 2025).
Kaija Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver; Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto (U.S. Premiere) with Lawrence Power, viola; Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. Hannu Lintu conducts (recorded March 14, 2025).
John Williams’ Theme from Seven Years in Tibet; Guillaume Connesson’s Lost Horizons Violin Concerto (U.S. Premiere) with Akiko Suwanai, violin; Adolphus Hailstork’s An American Port of Call; Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront. Stéphane Denève conducts.
Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations with Michael Spyres, tenor; Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with Michael Spyres, tenor; Franz Liszt’s Les préludes. Stéphane Denève conducts (recorded March 28, 2025).
Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Jean Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite (Four Legends from the Kalevala). John Storgårds conducts.