WDR Symphony Orchestra

The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra welcomes back beloved artistic partner Pekka Kuusisto with a varied and colorful program. Cindy Cox’s new work for the SPCO, Dreaming a World’s Edge, was inspired by photographs of remote and endangered geographic locales captured with an antique 19th-century camera. Ralph Vaughan Williams, after the horrors of the first world war, sought to capture a simpler time with his famous tone poem for violin and chamber orchestra, The Lark Ascending, a work that shares with Cox a sense of fragility about the natural world. Louise Farrenc’s little-known but masterful Symphony No. 3 brings this concert to a dramatic conclusion.

This week on SymphonyCast, host Steve Seel brings us the biggest musical party of the year —the last night of the proms!

This week on SymphonyCast, host Steve Seel welcomes back the BBC Proms, and this concert is pulsing with dance. Selections include the European premiere of Carlos Simon’s ‘Four Black American Dances,’ George Gershwin’s Concerto in F and Maurice Ravel’s ‘La Valse.’

This week on SymphonyCast, host Steve Seel features another concert from the BBC Proms. In this concert, conductor Iván Fischer, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and soprano Anna-Lena Elbert celebrate the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti’s original ‘Mysteries of the Macabre.’

This week on SymphonyCast, host Steve Seel takes us once again to the BBC Proms, where award-winning pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason makes her solo debut. Plus principal conductor Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales return with Tchaikovsky’s powerful Symphony No. 5.

On this episode of SymphonyCast, we have another BBC Proms exclusive with host Steve Seel, as conductor Mark Elder and the Hallé orchestra present a Russian pairing of music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Dmitri Shostakovich.

This week on SymphonyCast, conductor Josep Pons and the BBC Symphony Orchestra present a concert from the Proms painted with colors of Spain and France. Listen now with host Steve Seel.

This week on SymphonyCast with host Steve Seel, the BBC Proms returns with the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Mark Wigglesworth performing music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Gustav Mahler.

On SymphonyCast this week, the 2023 BBC Proms kicks off with a series of Nordic delights from Sibelius and Grieg. Also later in the program, we hear Britten’s ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ and a world premiere from Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak. Listen now with host Steve Seel.

On SymphonyCast with host Steve Seel, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra brings us a remarkable combination of Czech and Russian music. The orchestra also is joined by pianist Martin Kasik, a regular guest performer.