Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2017-2018 Radio Broadcast Season Program 1 Rhapsody in Blue Gala Manfred Honeck, conductor; Lang Lang, piano Program 2 STAFFORD SMITH: Star Spangled Banner GLINKA: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila MORRICONE: “Gabriel’s Oboe” from “The Mission” TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto DVORAK: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” MACMILLAN: Fanfare for Pittsburgh Manfred Honeck, conductor; Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, oboe; Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin Program 3 ADAMS: Lollapalooza (PSO premiere) BRAHMS: Violin Concerto PIGOVAT: Manfred Honeck 10th Anniversary Commission SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Manfred Honeck, conductor; Christian Tetzlaff, violin Program 4 MUSSORGSKY: Scherzo CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 2 Christoph Konig, conductor; Yulianna Avdeeva, piano Program 5 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 MAHLER: Twelve Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Manfred Honeck, conductor; Matthias Goerne, baritone Program 6 STRAVINSKY: Petrushka OFFENBACH: Selections from La gaite parisienne RAVEL: Bolero Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor Program 7 BEETHOVEN: Overture to Egmont BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 Kryzysztof Urbanski, conductor; Ray Chen, violin Program 8 MACMILLAN: Manfred Honeck 10th Anniversary Commission SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” Manfred Honeck, conductor; Alisa Weilerstein, cello Program 9 BARTOK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9, “The Great” Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor Program 10 MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition PAGANINI: Sonata per la Grand Viola RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite Lionel Bringuier, conductor; Randolph Kelly, viola Program 11 STRAUSS: Don Juan WAGNER: Overture to Tannhauser BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Program 12 HANDEL: Messiah Manfred Honeck, conductor; Rachele Gilmore, soprano; Andrey Nemzer, countertenor; Werner Gura, tenor; Alexander Elliott, bass; The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Matthew Mehaffey, director Program 13 CHAUSSON: Poeme RAVEL: Tzigane Favorite Strauss family waltzes and polkas Manfred Honeck, conductor; Noa Wildschut, violin Program 14 HAYDN: Overture to Armida BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 MOZART: Ave verum corpus MOZART: Symphony No. 39 Manfred Honeck, conductor; Till Fellner, piano Program 15 MOZART: Overture to La clemenza di Tito SCHUBERT: Overture and Ballet Music No. 2 from Rosamunde MOZART: Symphony No. 40 MOZART: Symphony No. 41 Manfred Honeck, conductor Program 16 HAYDN: The Creation Manfred Honeck, conductor; Sam Helfrich, stage director; Rachele Gilmore, soprano; Werner Gura, tenor; Alexander Elliott, bass; The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh of Pittsburgh; Matthew Mehaffey, director Program 17 HAYDN: Piano Concerto in D Major MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 Manfred Honeck, conductor; Rudolf Buchbinder, piano Program 18 BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 STRAUSS: Don Quixote Christoph Konig, conductor; Maximilian Hornung, cello; Randolph Kelly, viola Program 19 DEBUSSY: Printemps IBERT: Flute Concerto RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales STRAVINSKY: Suite from The Firebird Juanjo Mena, conductor; Lorna McGhee, flute Program 20 MACMILLAN: Miserere MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 Manfred Honeck, conductor; Ying Fang, soprano; Gerhild Romberger, mezzo-soprano; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh Program 21 CARRENO: Margaritena RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 2 MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 Rafael Payare, conductor; Kirill Gerstein, piano Program 22 TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8 Vasily Petrenko, conductor; Behzod Abduraimov, piano Program 23 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4, “Romantic” Manfred Honeck, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano Program 24 KABALEVSKY: The Comedians STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto RAUTAVAARA: A Requiem in Our Time for Brass and Percussion BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 Osmo Vanska, conductor; Vilde Frang, violin Program 25 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 Manfred Honeck, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano Program 26 PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2 JANACEK: Sinfonietta Manfred Honeck, conductor; Benjamin Grosvenor, piano .