SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ON KNAU
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-01
KNAU BROADCAST: 9/10
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOISTS: Yuja Wang, piano/ Mark Inouye, trumpet*
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Opus 35*
Stravinsky Le Chant du Rossignol
Stravinsky The Firebird Suite [1919 revision]
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-02
KNAU BROADCAST: 9/17
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOISTS: Steven Braunstein, contrabassoon*/ Alexander Barantschik, violin**
Tilson Thomas Urban Legend* (World Premiere)
Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Opus 40**
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-03
KNAU BROADCAST: 9/24
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Alexander Barantschik, violin*
Debussy/
Orch. Holloway En blanc et noir
J. Adams My Father Knew Charles Ives
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Opus 35*
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-04
KNAU BROADCAST: 10/1
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor
ENCORE:
Schumann Symphony No. 3
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-05
KNAU BROADCAST: 10/8
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Cameron Carpenter, organ*
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
H. Brant Ice Field* (San Francisco Symphony commission)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Opus 64
ENCORE:
Tilson Thomas Street Song for Symphonic Brass
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-06
KNAU BROADCAST: 10/15
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOISTS: Alexander Barantschik, violin/ Jonathan Vinocour, viola
Samuel Carl Adams Radial Play
Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major for Violin and Viola, K.364 (320d)
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
ENCORE:
Debussy Nocturnes
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-07
KNAU BROADCAST: 10/22
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major
ENCORE:
Debussy La Mer
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-08
KNAU BROADCAST: 10/29
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Emanuel Ax, piano
Mahler Blumine
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Opus 37
Copland Music from the film Our Town
Debussy La Plus que lente
Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Sibelius Valse triste
Rachmaninoff “Vocalise” Opus 34, no.14
Delibes “Cortège of Bacchus” from Sylvia
ENCORE:
Copland Short Symphony
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-09
KNAU BROADCAST: 11/5
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Alexander Barantschik, violin
Beethoven Romance in G major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 40
Beethoven Romance in F major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 50
Mason Bates The B-Sides (San Francisco Symphony commission)
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Opus 93
ENCORE:
Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-10
KNAU BROADCAST: 11/12
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Julia Fischer, violin
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Opus 19
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Opus 14
ENCORE: Mozart Symphony No. 38
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-11
KNAU BROADCAST: 11/19
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Yefim Bronfman, piano
R. Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Opus 28
Mark Volkert Pandora (World Premiere)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Opus 73 “Emperor”
ENCORE:
Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D major, K.504 “Prague”
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-12
KNAU BROADCAST: 11/26
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Gil Shaham, violin
Stravinsky Agon
Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D major
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring [1947 revision]
Encore
Stravinsky: Apollo
PROGRAM #: SFS 18-13
KNAU BROADCAST: 12/3
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tilson Thomas
SOLOIST: Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Liszt: Prometheus
Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Opus 13, “Winter Daydreams”
ENCORE:
Tilson Thomas: Street Song for Symphonic Brass
Last Broadcast of the season.
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January 7th: A New Season from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
January