Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen's 3-movement Sinfonia concertante for Organ and Orchestra, 2022, scored for solo organ, triple winds, full brass, timpani, 3 percussionists, harp and strings, is a 34 minute exquisite and authentically original work of enormous sonority and harmonics.
7/3 Panfunik: Heroic Overture Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1, Winter Dreams Wagner: Prelude to Tristan and Isolde (Yulianna Avdeeva, p; Tugan Sokhiev and Daniel Barenboim, cond)
7/10 Stravinsky: Four Studies for Orchestra R. Strauss: Don Juan Esa-Pekka Salonen: Sinfonia Concertante for Organ and Orchestra Aivars Kalejs: Toccata on the Chorale Allein Gott in der Höh sei Her Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (Iveta Apkalna, org; Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond)
7/17 Wagner: Overture to Rienzi R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 Stravinsky: Fireworks Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 (Dale Clevenger, hn; Byron Janis, p; Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Fritz Reiner, Jean Martinon and Leonard Bernstein, con)
7/24 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 Liszt: A Faust Symphony (Vladimir Ashkenazy, p; Siegfried Jerusalem, t; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Margaret Hillis, dir; Sir Georg Solti, cond)
7/31 Donizetti: Overture to Don Pasquale Verdi: The Four Seasons from I vespri sicilliani Chabrier: España Golijov: Megalopolis Suite de Falla: Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat Mozart: String Quintet (Lei Hou and Qing Hou, v; Catherine Brubaker and Lawrence Neuman, vla; Karen Basrak, c; \
Ricardo Muti, cond)
