A brilliant musician and visionary, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard's approach to Classical and Romantic music is often in demand with leading composers as collaborator and interpreter. We hear him collaborate with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen on 8/23 @ 8pm.

Ferocious, haunting, serene, searching, Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury takes inspiration from the emotionally fraught verses of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Ivan Hewett of The Telegraph describes the violinist like this, “Pekka Kuusisto…surely has the most personal sound of any classical violinist now alive”

Born in London in 1984, composer Hannah Kendall graduated from the University of Exeter with First Class Honours in Music, and completed a Masters in Advanced Composition with Distinction from the Royal College of Music. We'll hear her new commission by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tuxedo: Vasco de Gama.

Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and performed last April under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Metacosmos is already on the roster of many of the world's leading orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony.

Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is so great in mass that it is twice as massive as all the other planets combined. Hear Mozart's Symphony No. 41, Jupiter on 6/15 @ 8pm.

We'll hear award-winning composer Carlos Simon's Elegy (A Cry from the Grave) on the 5/25 broadcast

Of her 2019 composition Fountain of Youth, composer Julia Wolfe said, "People have searched for the fountain of youth for thousands of years. The thought…

The San Francisco Symphony's world premiere of Meditations on Rilke in January 2020 revealed yet another side of Michael Tilson Thomas's compositional…