Poster Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Marie-Reine Mattera
Performance Today®

Philadelphia Chooses a new Music Director

For the last three years, the Philadelphia Orchestra has been searching for a new music director. The search is over, and today we'll introduce you to him, Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin. We'll also hear him lead his other orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, in excerpts from Berlioz'"Symphonie Fantastique."

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Hector Berlioz: Rakoczy March
The New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Capriccio No. 3 in F, ZWV 184
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor
Konzerthaus, Freiburg, Germany

Henry Purcell: Chacony
The Flanders Recorder Quartet
Boston Early Music Festival, Boston

William Walton: Chaconne: The Death of Falstaff, from the film Henry V
David Owen Norris, piano
The Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, Michigan

William Walton: Touch her Soft Lips and Part, from Henry V Suite
The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, conductor
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne, Australia

Hector Berlioz: Excerpts from Symphonie Fantastique
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Hour 2

Gustav Holst: March from Suite No. 2 in F, Op. 28
The Cleveland Symphonic Winds, Frederick Fennell, conductor

Alan Menken: Under the Sea
Quartet San Francisco
Yoshi's, San Francisco

Malcolm Arnold: Second movement from Three Sea Shanties
Prairie Winds
Milliken Auditorium, Traverse City, Michigan

Edvard Grieg: Ave Maris Stella
The Lausanne Vocal Ensemble, Michel Corboz, conductor
Abbey Church, Payerne, Switzerland

Gustav Holst: Excerpts from the Planets
The Dresden Staatskapelle and the Dresden State Opera Women's Chorus, Charles Dutoit, conductor
Semperoper, Dresden, Germany

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