On Saturday, Nov. 12, violinist Joshua Bell returned as a special guest with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, where he performed Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. He also directed the orchestra from the concertmaster chair for two contrasting symphonies: W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 25 and George Bizet’s Symphony No. 1. Listen to the concert now!
Program
Joshua Bell, conductor/violin
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Symphony No. 25
MAX BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1
GEORGES BIZET: Symphony No. 1
Previous Concerts
On Saturday, Oct. 1, pianist and composer Conrad Tao made his St. Paul Chamber Orchestra debut in a program built around Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 24.
The concert opened with Ruth Crawford-Seeger’s Music for Small Orchestra, which framed a program containing a Renaissance madrigal by Carlo Gesualdo, a sunny keyboard concerto by C.P.E. Bach and a cryptic work for viola and piano by Morton Feldman. Listen now!
Conrad Tao, conductor/piano
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Hyobi Sim, viola *
RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER: Music for Small Orchestra
CARLO GESUALDO: Resta di darmi noia from Madrigals, Book 6
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: Piano Concerto in D
MORTON FELDMAN: The Viola in My Life 3 *
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24
Upcoming concert broadcasts
SANG YOON KIM PLAYS CRUSELL’S SECOND CLARINET CONCERTO
Saturday, April 15, 2023, 8 p.m.
Sang Yoon Kim, clarinet
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
JOSEF SUK: Meditation on the Old Bohemian Chorale
BERNHARD CRUSELL: Clarinet Concerto No. 2
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Symphony No. 40
SEASON FINALE: BEETHOVEN’S PASTORAL SYMPHONY WITH GÁBOR TAKÁCS-NAGY
Saturday, June 10, 2023, 8 p.m.
Gábor Takács-Nagy, conductor
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Sang Yoon Kim, clarinet
CLAUDE DEBUSSY, ARR. GEOFFREY GORDON: Première Rhapsodie (First Rhapsody) **
EDVARD GRIEG: Quartet for String Orchestra in G Minor
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral)
** World Premiere, SPCO Commission
For more information regarding St. Paul Chamber Orchestra concerts, visit their official website.
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