Philadelphia Orchestra
A Crop of Recordings I: Shostakovich, Scriabin, Schönberg, Nielsen, Brahms, Strauss, and a Piano Recital
In Memoriam Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Opening Night at SPAC, with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stéphane Denève, with Garrick Ohlsson, Piano
Saratoga Performaing Arts Center
Wednesday, August 1 / 8:00 PM
Opening Night
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Stéphane Denève Conductor
Garrick Ohlsson Piano
Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 op. 23, B-Flat minor
Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2 op. 27, E minor…
Classical Music at SPAC: The Philadelphia Orchestra and André-Michel Schub’s Chamber Music Festival
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center presents the Philadelphia Orchestra’s three-week residency in tandem with an outstanding chamber music program directed by André-Michel Schub.
I regret that I could not attend a pre=season concert in June, the Buffalo Philharmonic under their …
The Philadelphia Orchestra at Davies Hall — A Great Legend Intact — Two Concerts
Remembering Ormandy – In Case You Were There, Too
Even before this 10-CD commemorative set was issued, I noticed a wash of nostalgia for Eugene Ormandy among baby boomers. He was inescapable for that generation, the progenitor of hundreds of LPs, only a sampling of which are contained here. Ormandy became Leopold Stokowski’s associate conductor at the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1936 and succeeded him two years later, beginning an unparalleled run of 44 years as music director before retiring in 1980, a reign no one will ever duplicate, or would want to. During that time Ormandy led the orchestra between 100 and 180 times a year. That, too, is a staggering statistic given that modern music directors, in their eagerness to spread themselves globally, are essentially long-term guests who drop in to visit their home orchestras for as little as a quarter of the regular season.