Recorded October 28 - 30, 2021, as part of the NEXT STAGE Digital Concert Series Presented by PNC.

SIR MARK ELDER conducts

WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
ELGAR Symphony No. 1

The spirited prelude to Wagner’s comic opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg highlights his uncanny ab...

CARLOS KALMAR conducts
GARRICK OHLSSON piano

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 6

Nicknamed the “Emperor”, Beethoven’s last piano concerto is bursting with heroic themes and virtuosic cadenzas, as well as one of the composer’s most tender slow movements.

While ...

Live recording from the Meyerson Symphony Center October 7, 2021.

LIDIYA YANKOVSKAYA conducts
DENYCE GRAVES mezzo-soprano
JEFFREY BIEGEL piano

MOZART Overture to Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
JEFFREY BIEGEL Reflection of Justice: An Ode to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
BIZET Carmen
ELLEN ...

FABIO LUISI conducts
DAVID BUCK flute

WEBER Overture to Oberon
JOAN TOWER Flute Concerto
R. STRAUSS Aus Italien (From Italy)

The stirring overture to Weber’s comic opera Oberon opens with solo horn calls and uses high winds to depict important characters, a practice that had a profound influenc...

Live recording from the Meyerson Symphony Center September 25, 2021.

FABIO LUISI conducts

R. STRAUSS Don Juan

The DSO Gala is the kick-off event of the Dallas fall social season, and it is always a tremendous evening of incredible music, fine dining and connecting with friends and colleagues, ...

FABIO LUISI conducts
BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH organ

CONVERSE The Mystic Trumpeter
COPLAND Organ Symphony
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

Inspired by the poems of Walt Whitman and the brass fanfares of Tchaikovsky, the American Frederick Converse composed his orchestral fantasy in 1904. Copland’s first major ...