PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2008-2009 RADIO BROADCAST SEASON

10/05/2008
CORIGLIANO: Promenade Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Alexander Toradze, piano

10/12/2008
WAGNER: Three excerpts from “Die Meistersinger”
WAGNER: Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan und Isolde”
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, conductor

10/19/2008
SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto
DEBUSSY: Three Nocturnes
RAVEL: Suite No. 2 from “Daphnis et Chloe”
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Betsy Burleigh, director
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, conductor
Nikolaj Znaider, violin

10/26/2008
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, 10, 20
HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3
Marek Janowski, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello

11/02/2008
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 2
MOZART: Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
RAVEL: “Rhapsodie espagnole”
Mariss Jansons, conductor

11/09/2008
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances Nos. 17, 18, 19, 21
Marek Janowski, conductor
Nikolaï Lugansky, piano

11/16/2008
RESPIGHI: Burlesque
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3
STRAVINSKY: The Firebird
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano

11/23/2008
MADERNA: Music for Gaiety
BERIO: Folk Songs
BERIO: 4 Original Versions of Boccherini’s “Ritirata notturna di Madrid”
RESPIGHI: Feste romane
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano

11/30/2008
CORIGLIANO: Phantasmagoria
ELGAR: Cello Concerto
MOZART: Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter"
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Anne Martindale Williams, cello

12/07/2008
BARBER: Essay No. 2
CORIGLIANO: The Red Violin Concerto
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin

12/14/2008
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet
CORIGLIANO: Percussion Concerto (world premiere)
PROKOFIEV: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
Marin Alsop, conductor
Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussion

12/21/2008
HANDEL: Messiah
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh
Julian Wachner, conductor
Joanna Mongiardo, soprano
Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano
Daniel Weeks, tenor
Michael Dean, bass

12/28/2008
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring Suite
PREVIN: Harp Concerto (world premiere)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4
André Previn, conductor
Gretchen Van Hoesen, harp

01/04/2009
MOZART: Symphony No. 39
STRAUSS: On the Beautiful Blue Danube
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto
KREISLER: “Liebeslied” and “Liebesfreud”
GOLDMARK: Violin Concerto
Mariss Jansons, conductor
Itzhak Perlman, violin

01/11/2009
ROUSSEL: Bacchus and Ariane, Suite No. 2
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

01/18/2009
DEBUSSY: Jeux
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2
JANACEK: Sinfonietta
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

01/25/2009
MOZART: Overture to “Cosi fan tutte”
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major
MOZART: Serenade No. 7, “Haffner”
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor
Benjamin Hochman, piano

02/01/2009
CORIGLIANO: Tournaments Overture
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2
ELGAR: Enigma Variations
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin

02/08/2009
HINDEMITH: Concert Music for Brass and Strings
MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3, “Strassburg”
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
Andrés Cárdenes, conductor
Chee Yun, violin

02/15/2009
MAHLER: Symphony No. 7
DVORAK: Slavonic Dances
Lorin Maazel, conductor

02/22/2009
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 4
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Horacio Gutierrez, piano

03/01/2009
VERDI: Overture to La forza del Destino
FLETCHER: Clarinet Concerto (world premiere)
STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Michael Rusinek, clarinet

03/08/2009
WEBER: Overture to “Oberon”
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto
DVORAK: The Water Sprite
STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Juraj Valcuha, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin

03/15/2009
MOZART: Masonic Funeral Music
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 11, “The Year 1905”
Louis Langrée, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano

03/22/2009
BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme of Haydn
MOZART: Horn Concerto No. 2
André Previn, conductor
William Cabellero, horn

03/29/2009
FAURE: Requiem
SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Betsy Burleigh, director
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Lucas Meachem, baritone
Nicole Cabell, soprano