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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.

Next week: Holiday Favorites.

January 7th: A New Season from the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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