Since its inception in 1959, the "Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra" has consistently received critical acclaim for artistic excellence. This 13 week Sunday series of two-hour concerts is hosted by WPR's Lori Skelton. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra can be heard Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. from January through March on our News & Classical Music Network and year round on the All-Classical Network.
Sunday, January 5
Conductor: Ken-David Masur
Soloist: Boris Giltburg, piano
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Sunday, January 12
Conductors: Karina Canellakis (Boulanger, Stravinsky); Jader Bignamini (Tchaikovsky, Respighi)
- Boulanger: "D’un soir triste"
- Stravinsky: "Le Sacre du printemps" (The Rite of Spring)
- Tchaikovsky: "Capriccio italien"
- Respighi: "The Pines of Rome"
Sunday, January 19
Conductor: Yaniv Dinur
Soloist: Vadim Gluzman, violin
- Wiesenberg: "Jerusalem"
- Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12, “The Year 1917”
Sunday, January 26
Conductor: Johannes Debus
Soloist: Louis Lortie, piano
- Wagner: Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
- Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 595
- Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3. "Organ Symphony"
Sunday, February 2
Conductor: Carlos Kalmar
Soloist: Frank Almond, violin
- Strauss: "Don Juan"
- Bartók: "Deux Portraits"
- Dvořák: Symphony No. 6
Sunday, February 9
Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein
Soloist: Orli Shaham, piano
- Still: "Poeme" for Orchestra
- Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, "Pathetique"
Sunday, February 16
Conductor: Alexander Shelley
Soloist: Blake Pouliot, violin
- Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture
- Bruch: "Scottish Fantasy" for Violin & Orchestra
- Walton: Symphony No. 1
Sunday, February 23
Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk
Soloist: Simon Trpceski, piano
- Prokofiev: Suite from "Love for Three Oranges"
- Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7
Sunday, March 1
Conductor: Eun Sun Kim
Soloists: Sonora Slocum, flute; Tara Erraught, mezzo-soprano; Stephen Powell, baritone;
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, Cheryl Frazes Hill, director
- Reinecke: Flute Concerto in D
- Brahms: A German Requiem
Sunday, March 8
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Sunday, March 15
Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
Soloists: Jeffrey Kahane, piano; Todd Levy, clarinet
- Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 14, K. 449
- Schubert: Symphony No. 7, "Unfinished"
- Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, K. 622
- Strauss: Overture to "Die Fledermaus"
Sunday, March 22
Conductor: Matthias Pintscher
Soloists: Javier Perianes, piano
- Matthias Pintscher: "Towards Osiris"
- Debussy: "La Mer"
- Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Egyptian"
- Scriabin: "The Poem of Ecstasy"
Sunday, March 29
Conductor: Francesco Lecce-Chong
Soloists: Sarah Shafer, soprano; Derrek Stark, tenor; Hugh Russell, baritone;
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus; Cheryl Frazes Hill, director; Milwaukee Children’s Choir; Lynn Swanson, director
- John Adams: "Doctor Atomic" Symphony
