Here is the Classical MPR live broadcast schedule for the Minnesota Orchestra's exciting 2018-2019 season. Click on the player below to listen live at the listed time and date.
SEASON OPENING: OSMO VÄNSKÄ AND EMANUEL AX
Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Alison Young
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
TOWER Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 1
COPLAND Appalachian Spring
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2
VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS THE PLANETS
Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Alison Young
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Michael Collins, clarinet
Women of the Minnesota Chorale
ROUSTOM Ramal
ADAMS Gnarly Buttons for Clarinet and Small Orchestra
HOLST The Planets
CELEBRATING NORTHROP'S RESTORED PIPE ORGAN
Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, 8 p.m. / Northrop Hall, Minneapolis
Host: Alison Young
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Paul Jacobs, organ
BACH/arr. Hubav Chaconne, from Partita No. 2
HARBISON What Do We Make of Bach? [World Premiere]
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, Organ Symphony
ROUVALI AND SHAHAM
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Alison Young
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
R. STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS MAHLER'S SEVENTH
Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
MAHLER Symphony No. 7
GUARANTOR'S WEEK: ANTHONY ROSS PLAYS SHOSTAKOVICH
Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Anthony Ross, cello
PUTS Inspiring Beethoven
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
A CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, 2 p.m. (Coffee Concert) / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Robin Blaze, countertenor
Richard Croft, tenor
Christopher Edwards, baritone
Minnesota Chorale
BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3
BACH Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas 4,5 and 6
AMERICAN EXPRESSIONS FESTIVAL:
VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS BERNSTEIN COPLAND AND GERSHWIN
Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, 8:30 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
(Broadcast July 4, 2019)
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Aaron Diehl, piano
COPLAND Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
BERNSTEIN Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
HARBISON Remembering Gatsby, Foxtrot for Orchestra
PAULUS Impassioned, from Symphony in Three Movements
GERSHWIN An American in Paris
AMERICAN EXPRESSIONS FESTIVAL:
VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS BARBER, COPLAND AND SHAW
Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Gabriel Campos Zamora, clarinet
BARBER Symphony No. 1
COPLAND Clarinet Concerto
SHAW Clarinet Concerto
HANSON Symphony No. 2, Romantic
AMERICAN EXPRESSIONS FESTIVAL:
VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS FUTURE CLASSSICS
Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestral Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Kevin Puts, Composer Institute director
BIZET, MOZART AND VIVALDI
Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Jane Glover, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violin
Roma Duncan, piccolo
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish
VIVALDI Piccolo Concerto in C Major
BIZET Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN AND STRAUSS
Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Bill Morelock
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
MOZART'S DOUBLE PIANO CONCERTO
Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Edo de Waart, conductor
Christina Naughton, piano
Michelle Naughton, piano
BATES Garages of the Valley
MOZART Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos and Orchestra
RESPIGHI Church Windows
PROKOFIEV'S SYMPHONY NO. 7
Friday, March 1, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello
PROKOFIEV Suite from The Love for Three Oranges
LUTOSŁAWSKI Cello Concerto
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 7
VÄNSKÄ, CURRIE AND COPLAND
Friday, March 15, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Colin Currie, percussion
MAZZOLI These Worlds in Us
TURNAGE Martland Memorial for Percussion and Orchestra
COPLAND Symphony No. 3
SCHUBERT'S UNFINISHED SYMPHONY
Friday, March 22, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
David Danzmayr, conductor
Alina Ibragimova, violin
LARSEN Symphony: Water Music
SCHUMANN Violin Concerto
SCHUBERT Symphony in B Minor, Unfinished
J. STRAUSS, JR. On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz
STEPHEN HOUGH PLAYS MENDELSSOHN
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 11 a.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Han-Na Chang, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
SHEPHERD Silvery Rills
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica
RIVAS CONDUCTS DVORAK
Friday, April 12, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Minnesota Orchestra
Ilyich Rivas, conductor
GINASTERA Ballet Suite from Estancia
DVORAK Symphony No. 8
VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN AND SIBELIUS
Friday, April 26, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Timothy Zavadil, clarinet
Vikingur Olafsson, piano
BEETHOVEN Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
GORDON Prometheus [U.S. Premiere]
TOMASSON Piano Concerto No. 2
SIBELIUS Tapiola
JENNIFER KOH PERFORMS BERNSTEIN'S SERENADE
Friday, May 3, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Minnesota Orchestra
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin
HAYDN Symphony No. 44, Mourning Symphony
BERNSTEIN Serenade after Plato's Symposium
BERNSTEIN Divertimento for Orchestra
MOZART Symphony No. 40
VERDI REQUIEM
Friday, May 17, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Minnesota Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Ailyn Pérez, soprano
Elizabeth DeShong, mezzo-soprano
René Barbera, tenor
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Minnesota Chorale
VERDI Requiem
GERSHWIN PIANO CONCERTO IN F
Friday, May 31, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Andrey Boreyko, conductor
Orion Weiss, piano
BORISOVA-OLLAS The Kingdom of Silence
GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra
NAGANO CONDUCTS BRUCKNER
Friday, June 7, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Minnesota Orchestra
Kent Nagano, conductor
Till Fellner, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 6
SEASON FINALE: VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS MAHLER'S TENTH
Friday, June 14, 2019, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Host: Brian Newhouse
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
MAHLER/Cooke SYMPHONY No. 10
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