Fabien Gabel conducts Ravel’s Noble and Sentimental Waltzes and Stravinsky’s Petrushka.  Karen Gomyo plays the Chausson Poeme for Violin and Orchestra and Moussa’s Violin Concerto.

Fabien Gabel conducts Ravel’s Noble and Sentimental Waltzes and Stravinsky’s Petrushka.  Karen Gomyo plays the Chausson Poeme for Violin and Orchestra and Moussa’s Violin Concerto.

Written for Irish Shakespeare star Harriet Smithson, on this week’s Pittsburgh Symphony Radio broadcast, you’ll hear Berlioz’s Symphony fantastique.  Plus, Osmo Vanska conducts Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, and Alisa Weilerstein plays Joan Tower’s “A New Day” for Cello and Orchestra.

Written for Irish Shakespeare star Harriet Smithson, on this week’s Pittsburgh Symphony Radio broadcast, you’ll hear Berlioz’s Symphony fantastique.  Plus, Osmo Vanska conducts Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, and Alisa Weilerstein plays Joan Tower’s “A New Day” for Cello and Orchestra.

Sir Mark Elder returns to Heinz Hall to conduct Wagner’s Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin, Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and Elgar’s “In the South.”  Plus, Paul Lewis makes his debut with the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12. 

Sir Mark Elder returns to Heinz Hall to conduct Wagner’s Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin, Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and Elgar’s “In the South.”  Plus, Paul Lewis makes his debut with the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12. 

Alina Ibragimova makes her Heinz Hall debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1.  Peter Oundjian conducts the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3.