Minnesota Orchestra live broadcasts on Classical MPR

Look below for each of our live broadcasts of the Minnesota Orchestra in the 2016-2017 season.

SEASON OPENING: OSMO VÄNSKÄ AND JOSHUA BELL

Friday, September 23, 2016, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin

LEVIN: Blur
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2

VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS PAULUS MASS

Friday, September 30, 2016, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Michael Gast, horn
Brian Jensen, horn
Kathy Kienzle, harp
Minnesota Chorale, chorus

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
GINASTERA: Harp Concerto
PAULUS: Mass for a Sacred Place

CELEBRATING SKROWACZEWSKI: BRUCKNER SYMPHONY NO. 8

Friday, October 14, 2016, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8

JOSEFOWICZ PERFORMS JOHN ADAMS

Friday, October 21, 2016, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin

BERLIOZ: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
RAVEL: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe
ADAMS: Scheherazade.2

GUARANTORS' CELEBRATION: VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS NEW WORLD SYMPHONY

Friday, November 4, 2016, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Esther Yoo, violin
Alan C. Page, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice (retired), narrator

COPLAND: Lincoln Portrait
BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1
DVOŘáK: Symphony No. 9, From the New World

GUARANTORS' CELEBRATION: VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS MAHLER'S SIXTH

Friday, November 11, 2016, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Claudio Puntin, clarinet

PUNTIN: Clarinet Concerto
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6

HANDEL'S MESSIAH

Friday, December 9, 2016, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Douglas Boyd, conductor
Minnesota Chorale, chorus

HANDEL: Messiah

NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION CONCERTS

Sunday, January 1, 2017, 2 p.m. / Orchestra Hall (Broadcast TBD)

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Music Director Osmo Vänskä takes the podium for the third consecutive New Year's Celebration, this time next to legendary American soprano Dawn Upshaw. She sings music from the great American songbook, Broadway and other favorites to ring in 2017 at Orchestra Hall.

OSMO VÄNSKÄ AND ALISA WEILERSTEIN

Friday, January 13, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello

AHO : Geija, Chinese Images for Orchestra
DVOŘáK: Cello Concerto
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5

RACHMANINOFF'S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2

Friday, January 20, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Roderick Cox, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano

DEBUSSY: Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4

A TRIBUTE CONCERT TO SIR NEVILLE MARRINER

Friday, January 27, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Courtney Lewis, conductor

MENDELSSOHN: The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1
DVOŘáK: Symphony No. 8

FUTURE CLASSICS: EMERGING COMPOSERS SPOTLIGHT

Friday, February 3, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Kevin Puts, Composer Institute director

RUSSIAN NIGHTS

Friday, February 17, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano

TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture
RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 6

HUGH WOLFF CONDUCTS MENDELSSOHN

Friday, February 24, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Hugh Wolff, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violin

ADES: Dances from Powder Her Face
BARTOK: Violin Concerto No. 2
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3, Scottish

MOZART AND BEETHOVEN

Friday, March 17, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Perry So, conductor
Simone Porter, violin

MOZART: Symphony No. 36, Linz
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2

STRAVINSKY'S RITE OF SPRING

Friday, March 31, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall (Broadcast TBD)

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Rafał Blechacz, piano

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1
STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring

VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS SCHUBERT

Friday, April 7, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Alban Gerhardt, cello
Susie Park, violin
Adam Kuenzel, flute
Wendy Williams, flute

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
ELGAR: Cello Concerto
SCHUBERT: Symphony in C major, The Great

DESSA WITH THE MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA

Saturday, April 15, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall (Note: MPR recording only; broadcast date TBD)

Minnesota Orchestra
Sarah Hicks, conductor
Dessa, rapper, vocalist and essayist

The Twin Cities' own multi-talented artist Dessa, a member of the indie hip-hop collective Doomtree, performs a new program of her music in collaboration with the Minnesota Orchestra. Sarah Hicks conducts this concert which crosses genres and boundaries and brings together the unique musical forces of Dessa and the Orchestra.

EDO DE WAART RETURNS

Friday, April 21, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Edo de Waart, conductor
Michelle Breedt, mezzo
Peter Auty, tenor
Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone
Minnesota Chorale, chorus

ELGAR: The Dream of Gerontius

LISE DE LA SALLE PLAYS RAVEL

Friday, April 28, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Lise de la Salle, piano

DUTILLEUX: Sounds, Space, Movement (The Starry Night)
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5

HAYDN AND MOZART

Friday, May 5, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Michael Gast, horn

HAYDN: Symphony No. 85, La Reine
MOZART: Horn Concerto No. 3
BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
RAVEL: La Valse

ERIN KEEFE PLAYS MOZART

Friday, May 12, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Erin Keefe, violin
Matthew Lipman, viola

LUTOSŁAWSKI: Little Suite
MOZART: Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
HINDEMITH: Mathis der Maler Symphony

ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA

Friday, June 2, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Anthony Ross, cello

WAGNER: Overture to Tannhauser
BLOCH: Schelomo (Solomon), Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra

MOZART AND DEBUSSY

Friday, June 9, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Ingrid Fliter, piano

FALLA: Interlude and Dance from La Vida Breve
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23
DEBUSSY: Images

OSMO VÄNSKÄ and YO-YO MA

Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 7:30 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

SMETANA: The Moldau, No. 2 from My Homeland
HAYDN: Cello Concerto in C major
MENDELSSOHN: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
DVORAK: Silent Woods for Cello and Orchestra
LISZT: Les Preludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3

SEASON FINALE: VÄNSKÄ CONDUCTS MAHLER'S SECOND

Friday, June 16, 2017, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall

Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Sasha Cooke, mezzo
Minnesota Chorale, chorus

HAYDN: Piano Concerto in D major
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection