Spend three Wednesdays with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Jan 8, 15 & 22 @ 8pm

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Published January 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM EST

Although the Czech Philharmonic won the 2024 Gramophone Classical Music Awards Orchestra of the Year Award, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra was among the six nominees for this prestigious recognition.

1/1 Grace Williams: Elegy for strings Nielsen: Violin Concerto Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (Liya Petrova, v; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Martyn Brabbins, cond)

1/8 Bavarian Radio Symphony I Haydn: Te Deum No. 2 Schubert: Mass No. 2 R. Strauss: Aus Italien (Siobhan Stagg, s; Julian Prégardien, t; Vito Priante, bs-bar; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; Riccardo Muti, cond)

1/15 Bavarian Radio Symphony II: Eastern European Flavor Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 Martinů: Viola Rhapsody-Concerto Janáček: Sinfonietta (Timothy Ridout, vla; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Simon Rattle, cond)

1/22 Bavarian Radio Symphony III: Kissin Plays Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Evgeny Kissin, p; Bavarian Radio Symphony; Krzysztof Urbański, cond)

1/29 Stravinsky: Suite No. 2 Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (Maria Dueñas, v; Berlin Radio Symphony; Elim Chan, cond)