WFMT Orchestra Series

Saturdays at 7pm
Maestro-Ken-David-Masur-2-Credit-AdamDeTour

Maestro Ken-David Masur. Credit: Adam DeTour

The WFMT Orchestra Series continues with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra – On Stage. The 2023 program begins with Music Director Ken-David Masur leading a program featuring Wynton Marsalis’s Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! and George Geshwin’s Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra with Aaron Diehl at the piano. The broadcast also includes Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie. Other highlights of the series include:

• Jonathon Heyward conducts a a program opening with Jessie Montgomery’s Records from a Vanishing City along with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 2. James Ehnes joins the performance for Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2

• Joyce Yang is the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor by Mozart. Witold Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra and Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm are also heard in this exciting broadcast.

•Aaron Diehl is back for a second year as the orchestra’s artistic partner and is the soloist in the complete version of Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite. William Grant Still‘s Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race and The Planets by Holst are also featured in this performance.

• Edo de Waart is the guest conductor at the podium as we hear works by Brahms and Mozart. Matthew Annin joins as the horn soloist in Strauss’s Concerto No.1 in E-flat major for Horn and Orchestra.

• To finish up the season, The Milwaukee Symphony Chorus joins in an exciting performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 in C minor, Resurrection conducted by Music Director Ken-David Masur.

See the complete listings below.

Schedule
  • November 25

    CONDUCTOR

    Han-Na Chang; Markus Stenz

    SOLOIST

    Stephen Hough, piano*

    Anna Clyne

    The Midnight Hour

    Rachmaninoff

    Concerto No. 2 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 18*

    Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

  • December 2

    CONDUCTOR

    Roderick Cox

    SOLOIST

    lnon Barnaton, piano*

    Strauss

    Don Juan, Op. 20

    Beethoven

    Concerto No. 4 in G major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 58*

    Sibelius

    Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82

  • December 9

    CONDUCTOR

    Yaniv Dinur

    SOLOIST

    Joyce Yang, piano*

    Dvořák

    In Nature’s Realm, Op. 91

    Mozart

    Concerto No. 24 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491*

    Lutosławski

    Concerto for Orchestra

  • December 16

    CONDUCTOR

    Ken-David Masur

    SOLOIST

    Aaron Diehl Trio*
    Milwaukee Symphony Women’s Chorus**

    Still

    Symphony No. 2, “Song of a New Race”

    Williams

    Zodiac Suite*

    Holst

    The Planets, Op. 32**

  • December 23

    CONDUCTOR

    Edo de Waart

    SOLOIST

    Matthew Annin, horn*

    Brahms

    Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16

    Strauss

    Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 11*

    Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, “Jupiter”

  • December 30

    CONDUCTOR

    Ken-David Masur

    SOLOIST

    Jessica Rivera, soprano; Anna Larsson, mezzo-soprano;
    Milwaukee Symphony Chorus/ Cheryl Frazes Hill, director*

    Britten

    “Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a

    Mahler

    Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection”*