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Broadcast Date: September 26, 2011

Schreker:
Mahler:

Record Date: January 08, 2011
Venue:Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Broadcast Date: September 19, 2011

Part One:

Stravinsky:

Haydn:

Part Two:

Featuring:
Joana Carneiro, conductor
Shai Wosner, piano

Dvorak:

Beethoven:

Record Date: December 10, 2010 and May 22, 2011
Venue: Wayzata Community Church and Ted Mann Concert Hall

Broadcast Date: September 12, 2011

Featuring:
Gil Shaham, violin

Haydn:
Beethoven:
Mendelssohn:

Record Date: September 18, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Broadcast Date: September 12, 2011 at 8 p.m.
SPCO Monday broadcasts return to Classical MPR

Broadcast Date: September 10, 2011 at 8 p.m.
SPCO Performs LIVE at the Ordway

Featuring:
Joana Carneiro, conductor: Cantus

Franz Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia concertante for Oboe, Bassoon, Violin and Cello
Nico Muhly: Luminous Body (world premiere, SPCO commission)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Double Violin Concerto in D Minor
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn

Broadcast Date: September 10, 2011 at 8 p.m.
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: June 13, 2011
Haydn, Bach, and Purcell

Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute

Haydn:
Bach:
Purcell:
Haydn: "

Date recorded: April 1-2, 2011
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie / St. Paul's United Church of Christ

Air date: June 06, 2011
James, Drukman and more

Gary Bordner, trumpet
Lynn Erickson, trumpet
Michael Israelievitch, percussion
Ruggero Allifranchini, violin

James:
Drukman:
Stravinsky:
Colgrass:
Woehr:

Date recorded: February 6, 2011
Venue: SPCO Center Music Room, St. Paul

Air date: May 23, 2011
Mozart and Brahms

Steven Copes, violin
Ruggero Allifranchini, violin
Sabina Thatcher, viola
Maiya Papach, viola
Edward Arron, cello

Mozart:
Brahms:

Date recorded: February 6, 2011
Venue: SPCO Center Music Room, St. Paul

Air date: May 23, 2011
Falla: Seven Spanish Folksongs

Joana Carneiro, conductor and Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Chapela:
Frank:
Falla:
Falla:
Copland:

Date recorded: February 19, 2011
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: May 16, 2011
CPE Bach: Sinfonia in D

Christian Zacharias, conductor and piano

Mozart:
Mozart:
Mozart:
Mozart:

Date recorded: October 22-23, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: May 9, 2011
CPE Bach: Sinfonia in D

Ton Koopman, director and harpsichord
Tini Mathot, harmpsichord

CPE Bach:
CPE Bach:
JS Bach:
Telemann:

Date recorded: Feburary 26, 2011
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: May 2, 2011
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Evan Hughes, bass-baritone

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Pintscher: Songs from Solomon's Garden for Baritone and Chamber Orch.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93

Date recorded: March 11, 2011
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, MN

Air date: April 26, 2011
Schumann's 4th Symphony

Roberto Abbado, conductor | Dale Barltrop, violin

Continuing our celebration of the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth, this program features two of the composer's orchestral works. SPCO violinist Dale Barltrop is featured as soloist on Schumann's rarely performed Violin Concerto, followed by Schumann's 4th Symphony, conducted by Roberto Abbado.

Luciano Berio:
Robert Schumann:
Robert Schumann:

Original Broadcast: May 31, 2010
Date recorded: March 19 & 21, 2010
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie & Benson Great Hall, Bethel University, Arden Hills

Air date: April 4, 2011 (originally broadcast March 15, 2010)
Abbado Conducts Schumann

Roberto Abbado, conductor

Artistic Partner Roberto Abbado conducts a program pairing established masterpieces by Schumann, the Zwickau and Rhenish symphonies, with the world premiere of a new work by Italian composer Michele Dall'Ongaro.

Schumann:
Dall'Ongaro:
Robert Schumann:

Date recorded: January 29, 2010
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie

Air date: March 28, 2011
Chamber Music: Week 1

Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute | Timothy Paradise, clarinet
Sunmi Chang, violin | Yoonshin Song, violin
Sabina Thatcher, viola | David Huckaby, cello

Elliott Carter:
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Date recorded: December 5, 2010
Venue: SPCO Center Music Room, St. Paul

Air date: March 21, 2011 (originally broadcast January 25, 2010)
Opening Night: Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Douglas Boyd, conductor | Steven Copes, violin
Maiya Papach, viola | Kathryn Greenbank, oboe
Charles Ullery, bassoon

Douglas Boyd begins his final season as Artistic Partner in a celebration featuring members of the orchestra as soloists as well as Beethoven's gripping 5th Symphony.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
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Antonio Vivaldi:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
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Ludwig van Beethoven:

Date recorded: September 12, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: March 14, 2011
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

Laurence Cummings, director and harpsichord | Kathryn Greenbank, oboe
Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute | Ruggero Allifranchini, violin

Arcangelo Corelli:
J.S. Bach:
Arcangelo Corelli:
Antonio Vivaldi:
J.S. Bach:

Date recorded: November 28, 2010
Venue: Ted Mann Concert Hall, Minneapolis

Air date: March 7, 2011
Bach Violin Concerto

Pekka Kuusisto, director and violin

J.S. Bach: Concerto No. 2 in E for Violin and Orch., BWV 1042
Jean Sibelius: Rakastava, Op. 14
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048
Timo Alakotila: Sketches from Folk Scenes

Date recorded: November 19, 2010
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie

Air date: February 28, 2011 (originally broadcast March 8, 2010)
Stravinsky Festival Kickoff

Jon Kimura Parker, piano

The SPCO began its three-week Stravinsky Festival with a bang in this concert with Stravinsky's beautiful neoclassical Apollon Musagète performed unconducted, as the SPCO does so well. Pianist Jon Kimura Parker, who wowed Twin Cities audiences during his last SPCO appearances, joins the orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27.

Darius Milhaud:
Igor Stravinsky:
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Arthur Lourie:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Date recorded: January 9, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: February 21, 2011 (originally broadcast December 28, 2009)
Shostakovich Piano Concerto

Hans Graf, conductor | Kirill Gerstein, piano
Timothy Paradise, clarinet

Conductor Hans Graf returns to the SPCO with this all-Russian program. Two introspective pieces — the Shostakovich Chamber Symphony and Kancheli's Night Prayers — are paired with two pieces of a more extroverted variety: the Prokofiev Sinfonietta, one of his seldom-performed early compositions, and the second Shostakovich piano concerto, familiar to many as the score for the tin soldier vignette in Disney's Fantasia 2000.

Dmitri Shostakovich:
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Dmitri Shostakovich:
Giya Kancheli:
Sergei Prokofiev:

Date recorded: October 10, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center

Air date: February 14, 2011 (originally broadcast April 19, 2010)
Allifranchini Plays Bruch's Violin Concerto

Ruggero Allifranchini, director and violin

The SPCO's Ruggero Allifranchini performs as soloist on Bruch's rhapsodic Violin Concerto No. 1, one of the most popular violin concertos in the repertoire. Also included in this program is Mozart's rarely performed Symphony No. 34, as well as music by Rossini and Strauss.

Gioachino Rossini:
Max Bruch:
Richard Strauss:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Date recorded: March 6, 2010
Venue: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, St. Paul

Air date: February 7, 2011 (originally broadcast May 3, 2010)
Upshaw Sings Bach and Bartók

Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Artistic Partner Dawn Upshaw joins the SPCO to perform music from European folk traditions, including Hungarian and Romanian classics by Hungary's greatest composer, Bartók. She is also joined by SPCO oboist Kathryn Greenbank in selected cantata arias by J.S. Bach.

Georg Philipp Telemann: , Völker Overture
Johann Sebastian Bach:
  :
  "Weichet nur betrübte Schatten" from Cantata No. 202, Wedding Cantata
  "Sich üben im Lieben" from Cantata No. 202, Wedding Cantata
  "Wie freudig ist mein Herz" from Cantata No. 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut
Béla Bartók:
Béla Bartók: 6

Date recorded: February 13, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: January 31, 2011
Schubert's Tragic Symphony

Hans Graf, conductor

Fauré: Suite from Pelléas and Mélisande, Opus 80
Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) Ballet Music
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 Tragic

Date recorded: November 13, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: January 24, 2011
Beethoven's 1st Symphony

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor

Cage: The Seasons, Ballet in One Act for Orchestra
Brahms: Quartet in C Minor for Two Violins, Viola and Cello, Op. 51, No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C, Opus 21

Date recorded: May 1, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: January 17, 2011
Mozart Violin Concerto

Stephen Copes, violin

Mozart:
Shostakovich:

Date recorded: October 29, 2010
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie

Air date: January 10, 2011 (originally broadcast February 15, 2010)
Welcoming Christian Zacharias

Christian Zacharias, conductor and piano

Acclaimed pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias begins his SPCO Artistic Partnership with a French-themed program that showcases Zacharias the pianist in Poulenc's Sextet and Zacharias the conductor in Bizet's L'Arlésienne, incidental music from the play of the same name by Alphonse Daudet. L'Arlésienne, or The Girl from Arles, has become one of Bizet's most popular orchestral works, but you'll hear it in its original version for chamber orchestra.

Georges Bizet:
Francis Poulenc:
Arthur Honegger:
Francis Poulenc:
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Date recorded: November 27 & 28, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: January 3, 2011 (originally broadcast November 2, 2009)
Carneiro, Upshaw and Haydn

Joana Carneiro, conductor | Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Franz Joseph Haydn:
Maurice Ravel:
John Dowland:
Witold Lutoslawski:

Date recorded: April 25, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: December 27, 2010
The Four Seasons

Steven Copes, violin | Ruggero Allifranchini, violin

Ástor Piazzolla:
Antonio Vivaldi:
Antonio Vivaldi:
Antonio Vivaldi:
Antonio Vivaldi:

Date recorded: October 15 & 16, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: December 13, 2010 (originally broadcast December 21, 2009)
Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ

Douglas Boyd, conductor | Performed by SPCO Chorale

Artistic Partner Douglas Boyd so enjoyed collaborating with Dale Warland's SPCO Chorale in 2008-09, he requested another collaboration for his final season with the SPCO. Berlioz's gentle, sublime oratorio tells the story of Christ's birth and the holy family's journey across Egypt. It is a rarely performed masterpiece, one of only a handful of Berlioz works written for chamber orchestra.

Hector Berlioz:
Hector Berlioz:
Hector Berlioz:

Date recorded: September 19, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center

Air date: November 22, 2010

Part 1:
Bicket Does Baroque and Beyond

Harry Bicket, conductor
Ronald Thomas, cello
Ruggero Allifranchini, violin

Henry Purcell: Chacony in G Minor
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa for Two Violins, Strings and Prepared Piano
James MacMillan: Kiss on Wood for Cello and String Orchestra

Date recorded: October 9 & 10, 2010
Venue: Ted Mann Concert Hall

Part 2:
Schumann's 2nd Symphony

Roberto Abbado, conductor

Robert Schumann: Overture to Genoveva, Op. 81
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61

Date recorded: March 25, 2010
Venues: Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater

Air date: November 15, 2010 (originally broadcast December 28, 2009)
Shostakovich Piano Concerto

Hans Graf, conductor | Kirill Gerstein, piano
Timothy Paradise, clarinet

Dmitri Shostakovich:
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Dmitri Shostakovich:
Giya Kancheli:
Sergei Prokofiev:

Date recorded: October 10, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center

Air date: November 8, 2010
Bach and Haydn

Christian Zacharias, piano and conductor

Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056
Domenico Scarlatti: Four Keyboard Sonatas
Charles Avison: Concerto Grosso No. 2 in G (after Scarlatti)
George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6, No. 1 HWV 319
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 67 in F

Date recorded: June 6, 2010
Venue: Ted Mann Concert Hall

Air date: November 1, 2010
Schumann's Spring Symphony

Christian Zacharias, piano and conductor

C.P.E. Bach:
Bernd Alois Zimmermann:
C.P.E. Bach:
Robert Schumann:

Date recorded: June 12, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: October 25, 2010
Joshua Bell Plays Beethoven

Joshua Bell, violin and conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Johannes Brahms:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Ludwig van Beethoven:

Date recorded: May 29, 2010
Venue:

Air date: October 18, 2010
Cantus Sings Schubert and Weill

Mark Russell Smith, conductor | Cantus, vocal ensemble
Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano

Franz Schubert:
Franz Schubert:
Franz Schubert:
Kurt Weill:

Date recorded: May 23, 2010
Venue: Ted Mann Concert Hall

Air date: October 11, 2010
Mozart and Copland

Thomas Zehetmair, violin and conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Aaron Copland:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Date recorded: April 23 & 24, 2010
Venue: Wooddale Church, St. Paul's United Church of Christ

Air date: October 4, 2010
Zehetmair Plays Beethoven's Violin Concerto

Thomas Zehetmair, violin and conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Ernst Krenek:
Anton Webern:
Franz Schubert:

Date recorded: April 10 & 15, 2010
Venue: Trinity Lutheran Church, St. Paul's United Church of Christ

Air date: September 27, 2010
Celebrating Schumann

Robert Abbado, conductor | Jonathan Biss, piano

Robert Schumann:
Steven Stucky:
Robert Schumann:
Robert Schumann:

Date recorded: Mar. 14, 2010
Venue: Ted Mann Concert Hall

Air date: September 20, 2010
English Classics

Paul Goodwin, conductor

Henry Purcell:
Benjamin Britten:
William Boyce:
Arcangelo Corelli:
Michael Tippett:
Edward Elgar:

Date recorded: Feb. 26-27, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Nikolaj Znaider, violin and conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 Turkish>
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Date recorded: September 20 and 27, 2008
Venue: United Church of Christ and Benson Great Hall, St. Paul

Air date: May 31, 2010
Schumann's 4th Symphony

Roberto Abbado, conductor | Dale Barltrop, violin

Luciano Berio:
Robert Schumann:
Robert Schumann:

Date recorded: March 19 & 21, 2010
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie & Benson Great Hall, Bethel University, Arden Hills

Air date: May 24, 2010
Haydn and Stravinsky

Roberto Abbado, conductor | Peter Serkin, piano

Igor Stravinsky:
Charles Wuorinen: for Piano and Orchestra
Franz Joseph Haydn:

Date recorded: September 12 & 13, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: May 17, 2010
Adés and Berlioz

Donata Cabrera, conductor | Thomas Cooley, tenor

The music of British composer and conductor Thomas Adés, one of the most in-demand living composers of our time, is featured on this program, including Three Studies after Couperin, a piece based on the keyboard music of 18th century French composer François Couperin.

Thomas Adés:
Hector Berlioz:
Thomas Adés:
Darius Milhaud:

Date recorded: April 2 & 3, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: May 10, 2010
¡Canta Dawn Upshaw!

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor | Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Artistic Partner Dawn Upshaw is joined by conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya for a program exploring Spanish and Latin American influences. Famed Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov's Three Songs are paired with a new work by Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias, best known for his film scores for several critically acclaimed films by fellow Spaniard Pedro Almodovar, such as Talk to Her and Volver.

Ástor Piazzolla: Fuga y Misterio for Chamber Orchestra (0:00)
Alberto Iglesias: In the Land of the Lemon Trees for Soprano and Orchestra (0:06)
Osvaldo Golijov: Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra (0:17)

Date recorded: November 6, 2009
Venue: Mandel Hall, Chicago, IL

Air date: May 3, 2010
Upshaw Sings Bach and Bartók

Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Date recorded: February 13, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: April 26, 2010
Telemann's Don Quixote Suite

Dale Barltrop, conductor & violin | Kathryn Greenbank, oboe

Georg Frideric Handel:
Antonio Vivaldi:
Georg Philipp Telemann:
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Antonio Vivaldi:

Date recorded: March 27, 2009
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie

Air date: April 19, 2010
Allifranchini Plays Bruch's Violin Concerto

Ruggero Allifranchini, director and violin

Gioachino Rossini:
Max Bruch:
Richard Strauss:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Date recorded: March 6, 2010
Venue: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, St. Paul

Air date: April 12, 2010
Bach's Violin Concerto

Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite
Peteris Vasks: Violin Concerto
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4

Date recorded: October 10 & 11, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Arts

Air date: April 5, 2010
SPCO and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Rachel Podger (OAE), conductor & violinist | Ruggero Allifranchini (SPCO), conductor & violinist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
C.P.E. Bach:
Franz Joseph Haydn:
Dmitri Shostakovich:

Date recorded: January 23 & 24, 2009

Venue: Ordway Center for the Arts

Air date: March 29, 2010
Edo de Waart Conducts The Rake's Progress

Edo de Waart, conductor | Heidi Stober, soprano
Nancy Maultzby, mezzo-soprano | Judith Christin, mezzo-soprano
William Burden, tenor | Peter Coleman-Wright, bass-baritone
Kevin Langan, bass | Kathy Saltzman Romey, artistic director of Minnesota Chorale

The Stravinsky Festival continues with a concert performance of the complete The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky's only full-length opera and a true masterpiece, conducted by Artistic Partner designate Edo de Waart and featuring a top-flight international cast. De Waart brings to our St. Paul stage his expertise from a storied career in the great opera houses of the world.

Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress, Opera in Three Acts

Date recorded: January 16, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: March 22, 2010
Fauré and Ravel

Scott Yoo, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D, K. 297, Paris
Witold Lutoslawski: Partita for Violin and Orchestra with Piano Obbligato
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 2

Date recorded: March 13 & 14, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: March 15, 2010
Abbado Conducts Schumann

Roberto Abbado, conductor

Schumann: Symphony in G Minor, WoO 29, Zwickau (0:01)
Dall'Ongaro: Checkpoint for Chamber Orchestra (0:17)
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 97, Rhenish

Date recorded: January 29, 2010
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie

Air date: March 8, 2010
Stravinsky Festival Kickoff

Jon Kimura Parker, piano

Darius Milhaud:
Igor Stravinsky:
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Arthur Lourie:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Date recorded: January 9, 2010
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: March 1, 2010

Part 1:
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Elsa Nilsson, violin | Steven Copes, violin
Sunmi Chang, solo violin | Maiya Papach, viola
Susan Babini, cello | Fred Bretschger, double bass
Layton James, harpsichord | Alicia McQuerrey, flute
Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute

The individual and collective talents of our own SPCO musicians are on display as members of the orchestra perform two of the popular Brandenburg Concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Mozart's String Trio in E flat.

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Johann Sebastian Bach:

Date recorded: December 13, 2009
Venue: Saint Paul's United Church of Christ

Part 2:
Celebrating Stravinsky with Minnesota Orchestra

Roberto Abbado, conductor | Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Kaiser, tenor | Jason Grant, bass-baritone

As the Festival draws to a close, the SPCO and the Minnesota Orchestra perform two of the composer's ballet score masterpieces under the baton of SPCO Artistic Partner Roberto Abbado. The SPCO performs his complete Pulcinella, and the Minnesota Orchestra Performs The Firebird in its entirety.

Stravinsky: Pulcinella (complete ballet) (0:42)

Date recorded: January 21 & 23, 2010
Venues: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis; Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: February 22, 2010
Treasures of the Italian Baroque

Ruggero Allifranchini, violin | Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute

The musicians of the SPCO explore the highways and byways of Italian Baroque music in a revelatory unconducted program featuring concertos and sinfonias by Vivaldi and his lesser-known contemporaries.

Francesco Maria Veracini:
Giuseppe Torelli:
Charles Avison:
Antonio Vivaldi:
Pietro Locatelli:
Francesco Geminiani:
Antonio Vivaldi:

Date recorded: December 5, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: February 15, 2010
Welcoming Christian Zacharias

Christian Zacharias, conductor and piano

Georges Bizet:
Francis Poulenc:
Arthur Honegger:
Francis Poulenc:
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Date recorded: November 27 & 28, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: February 8, 2010
Håkan Hardenberger and Frankenstein!!

HK Gruber, conductor and chansonnier | Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet

Conductor H.K. Gruber directs the U.S. premiere of his new trumpet concerto, Busking, complete with banjo and accordion, performed by world-renowned trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger. This interesting new piece even includes banjo and accordion! The program concludes with Gruber's famous madcap composition Frankenstein!!

HK Gruber:
Igor Stravinsky:
HK Gruber:

Date recorded: October 30-31, 2009
Venues: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie (10/30) & Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (10/31)

Air date: February 1, 2010
Chamber Music Series – SPCO Winds

Hear the winds of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in a kaleidoscopic variety of instrumental combinations and music, ranging from the intimacy of Villa-Lobos' seductive Bachianas brasilieras for flute and bassoon to Enesco's lively Dixtour for ten players.

Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Walter Piston:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sextet for Two Clarinets, Two Bassoons and Two Horns
Georges Enesco:
Alec Wilder:

Date recorded: October 25, 2009
Venue: SPCO Center Music Room

Air date: January 25, 2010
Opening Night: Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Douglas Boyd, conductor | Steven Copes, violin
Maiya Papach, viola | Kathryn Greenbank, oboe
Charles Ullery, bassoon

Douglas Boyd begins his final season as Artistic Partner in a celebration featuring members of the orchestra as soloists as well as Beethoven's gripping 5th Symphony.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)
Antonio Vivaldi:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
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Ludwig van Beethoven:

Date recorded: September 12, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: January 18, 2010
Schumann's Piano Concerto

Ruggero Allifranchini, conductor & cello | Jonathan Biss, piano

Felix Mendelssohn:
Robert Schumann:
Johannes Brahms:
Robert Schumann:

Date recorded: May 30, 2009
Venue: St. Paul's United Church of Christ

Air date: January 11, 2010
Duruflé's Requiem

Dale Warland, conductor | Performed by SPCO Chorale

Dale Warland and the SPCO Chorale join the orchestra to perform the gorgeous, serene Requiem by Maurice Duruflé, a revised version written in 1961. Duruflé's experience as a member of the Rouen Cathedral Choir is reflected in this piece by his use of Gregorian plainchant clothed in sophisticated 20th century harmonies. The program also includes Arvo Pärt's beautiful and sublime Te Deum.

Arvo Pärt:
Maurice Duruflé:

Date recorded: October 23, 2009
Venue: Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie

Air date: January 4, 2010
Venetian Baroque

Mark Russell Smith, conductor | Sunmi Chang, violin

Once again, the SPCO's own gifted musicians are featured as soloists on a program of Venetian Baroque works. These musicians share the spotlight in performances of instrumental concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Other highlights of this program are pieces premiered at Venice's renowned opera hall, La Fenice, including selections from Verdi's La Traviata and Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers.

Giovanni Gabrieli:
Franz Liszt (arr. John Adams):
Antonio Vivaldi:
Gian Francesco Malipiero:
Antonio Vivaldi:
Igor Stravinsky:
Giuseppe Verdi:
Gioachino Rossini:

Date recorded: October 18, 2009
Venue: Benson Great Hall, Bethel University

Air date: December 28, 2009
Shostakovich Piano Concerto

Hans Graf, conductor | Kirill Gerstein, piano
Timothy Paradise, clarinet

Dmitri Shostakovich:
(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)
Dmitri Shostakovich:
Giya Kancheli:
Sergei Prokofiev:

Date recorded: October 10, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center

Air date: December 21, 2009
Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ

Douglas Boyd, conductor | Performed by SPCO Chorale

Hector Berlioz:
Hector Berlioz:
Hector Berlioz:

Date recorded: September 19, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center

Air date: December 7, 2009
Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony

Ronald Thomas, conductor & cello

Johannes Brahms:
Felix Mendelssohn:

Date recorded: May 22 & 23, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center

Air date: November 30, 2009
Mendelssohn's Octet

Steven Copes, conductor & violin

Robert Schumann:
Felix Mendelssohn:
Johannes Brahms:
(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)

Date recorded: May 15 & 16, 2009
Venue: Wooddale, Saint Paul's UCC

Air date: November 23, 2009
Beethoven's 8th Symphony

Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor | Bernhard Scully, horn

Sergei Prokofiev:
Chen Yi:
Richard Strauss:
Ludwig van Beethoven:

Date recorded: April 30 & May 1, 2009
Venue: Shepherd of the Valley and Saint Paul's UCC

Air date: November 9, 2009
Enso String Quartet

The Enso String Quartet: Maureen Nelson & John Marcus, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola | Richard Belcher, cello

Alberto Ginastera: Quartet No. 1 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello, Op. 20 1948

Dale Barltrop & Maureen Nelson, violins | Sabina Thatcher & Melissa Reardon, violas
Ronald Thomas & Richard Belcher, cellos

Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence for Two Violins, Two Violas and Two Cellos, Op. 70 1890 (rev. 1892)

Date recorded: May 9, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: November 2, 2009
Carneiro, Upshaw and Haydn

Joana Carneiro, conductor | Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Franz Joseph Haydn:
Maurice Ravel:
John Dowland:
Witold Lutoslawski:

Date recorded: April 25, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: October 26, 2009
Landscapes of the Americas

Miguel Harth Bedoya, conductor

Baltazar Martinez y Compañon: *
Gabriela Lena Frank: (Andean Elegy) for Orchestra*
Jimmy Lopez: *
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3,
Michael Daugherty:
George Gershwin: for Piano and Jazz Band (orch. by Ferde Grofe)

*prev. aired February 2, 2009

Date recorded: November 15, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: October 19, 2009
Bach's Violin Concerto

Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Edvard Grieg:
Peteris Vasks:
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Johann Sebastian Bach:

*prev. aired October 11, 2008

Date recorded: October 4-5, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: October 12, 2009
Ravel's Mother Goose

Brad Lubman, conductor | Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano

Josquin and Dufay, arr. Lubman:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Maurice Ravel:

*prev. aired December 7, 2007

Date recorded: December 7-8, 2007
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: October 5, 2009
Abbado and Josefowicz

Roberto Abbado, conductor | Leila Josefowicz, violin

Luigi Cherubini:
John Adams:
Franz Schubert:

*prev. broadcast November 2, 2007

Date recorded: November 2-3, 2007
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: September 28, 2009
Haydn's The Creation

Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Sophie Daneman, soprano
James Taylor, tenor | Nathan Berg, bass-baritone
SPCO Anniversary Chorale (Dale Warland, Artistic Director)

F. J. Haydn: Oratorio, The Creation

(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)

*prev. aired April 20, 2009

Date recorded: February 20 & 21, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: September 21, 2009
McGegan's Farewell Fireworks

Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Dale Barltrop, violin

George Frideric Handel:
Peter Maxwell Davies:
Edward Elgar:
George Frideric Handel:

*prev. aired May 18, 2009

Date recorded: April 4, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: September 14, 2009
Music of Mozart

Douglas Boyd, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)

*prev. aired April 27, 2009

Date recorded: March 1, 2009
Venue: Ted Mann Concert Hall

Air date: May 25, 2009
Boyd Conducts Schumann and Debussy

Douglas Boyd, conductor | Steven Copes, violin

Claude Debussy, arr. Sachs-Schoenberg:
Kurt Weill:
Robert Schumann:

Date recorded: March 16, 2008
Venue: Ted Mann Concert Hall

Air date: May 18, 2009
McGegans Farewell Fireworks

Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Dale Barltrop, violin

George Frideric Handel:
Peter Maxwell Davies:
Edward Elgar:
George Frideric Handel:
(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)

Date recorded: April 4, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: May 11, 2009
Vivaldi and Handel

Dale Barltrop, conductor & violin | Kathryn Greenbank, oboe

George Frideric Handel:
Antonio Vivaldi:
Georg Philipp Telemann:
Johanna Sebastian Bach:
Antonio Vivaldi:

Date recorded: March 27, 2009
Venue: Wooddale Church

Air date: May 4, 2009
Fauré and Ravel

Scott Yoo, conductor | Steven Copes, violin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: , K. 297, Paris
Witold Lutoslawski:
Maurice Ravel:
Arthur Honegger:

Date recorded: March 13 & 14, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: April 27, 2009
Symphony No. 39 in E-flat

Douglas Boyd, conductor

Wolgang Amadeus Mozart:
Wolgang Amadeus Mozart:
Wolgang Amadeus Mozart:

Date recorded: March 1, 2009
Venue: Ted Mann Concert Hall

Air date: April 20, 2009
Haydn's The Creation

Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Sophie Daneman, soprano
James Taylor, tenor | Nathan Berg, bass-baritone
SPCO Anniversary Chorale (Dale Warland, Artistic Director)

Franz Joseph Haydn: Oratorio, The Creation

Date recorded: February 20 & 21, 2009
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: April 13, 2009
Chamber Music Series

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Carl Nielsen: **
Emile Bernard:

Date recorded: February 8, 2009
Venue: The Music Room, St. Paul

Air date: April 6, 2009
McGegan Conducts Handel and Haydn

Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Thomas Cooley, tenor*
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Orchestral Suite from Les Paladins
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Prison Scene from Dardanus
Georg Frideric Handel: Arias from Semele and Jephtha*
Ludwig van Beethoven: Prison Scene from Leonore
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 6, Le Matin
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 7, Le Midi
Peter Heidrich: Happy Birthday Variations for String Orchestra

Date recorded: January 29 & 30, 2009
Venue: Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater

Air date: March 30, 2009
Abbado Conducts Schubert's Great

Roberto Abbado, conductor

Franz Schubert:
Leon Kirchner: for Violin, Cello, Ten Winds, & Percussion
Franz Schubert:

Date recorded: January 12 & 13, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts & Ted Mann Concert Hall, Minneapolis

Air date: March 23, 2009
Bach's Brandenburg No. 1

Paul Goodwin, conductor | Manuel Barrueco, guitar

Georg Philipp Telemann:
Antonio Vivaldi:
Roberto Sierra:
Johann Sebastian Bach:

Date recorded: March 28, 2009

Air date: March 16, 2009
SPCO and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Rachel Podger (OAE), conductor & violinist | Ruggero Allifranchini (SPCO), conductor & violinist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
C.P.E. Bach:
Franz Joseph Haydn:
Dmitri Shostakovich:

Date recorded: January 23 & 24, 2009

Air date: March 9, 2009
Chamber Music Series

SPCO: Leslie Shank, Daria T. Adams & Brenda Manuel Mickens, violins
Evelina Chao, viola | Joshua Koestenbaum, cello
Gary Bordner, trumpet | Layton James, harpsichord
Guest artists: Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano | Nicole Percifield, mezzo-soprano

Alessandro Scarlatti: , Cantata for Soprano, Trumpet, Violins and Continuo
Domenico Scarlatti: , Strings and Organ
Giovanni B. Pergolesi:

Date recorded: November 21 & 23, 2008

Air date: March 2, 2009
Haydn and Stravinsky

Roberto Abbado, conductor | Peter Serkin, piano

Igor Stravinsky:
Charles Wuorinen: for Piano and Orchestra
Franz Joseph Haydn:

Date recorded: September 12 & 13, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: February 23, 2009
Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto

Christian Zacharias, conductor & piano

Igor Stravinsky:
Frederic Chopin:
Georges Bizet:

Date recorded: February 15 & 16, 2008

Air date: February 16, 2009
Schubert's 5th Symphony and Leila Josefowicz

James Gaffigan, conductor | Leila Josefowicz, violin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Chaconne and Pas seul from
Thomas Adès: Violin Concerto, Op. 24
Ottorino Respighi:
Franz Schubert:

Date recorded: Recorded December 11 & 12, 2008
Venue: Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church (Adès) & Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Air date: February 9, 2009
Upshaw and Schneider

Scott Yoo, conductor | Maria Schneider, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano | Ron Thomas, cello

Paul Hindemith: No. 3 for Obbligato Cello and 10 Solo Instruments*
Maurice Delage: for Soprano and Ensemble*
Bach: Ricercare from
Maria Schneider: for Soprano & Chamber Orchestra
(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)

Date recorded: Recorded October 24 & 25, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Arts

Air date: February 2, 2009
Landscapes of the Americas

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor | Terrence Wilson, piano

Baltaaar Martinez y Compañon: *
Gabriela Lena Frank: (Andean Elegy) for Orchestra*
Jimmy Lopez: *
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3,
Michael Daugherty:
George Gershwin: for Piano and Jazz Band (orch. by Ferde Grofe)

*First presentation by the SPCO

Date recorded: Recorded November 15, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Arts

Air date: January 26, 2009
Bach's Violin Concerto

Nicholas McGegan, conductor | Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Edvard Grieg:
Peteris Vasks: Violin Concerto,
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Johann Sebastian Bach:

Date recorded: October 10 and 11, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Arts

Air date: January 19, 2009
Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano and conductor

Charles Ives:
Claude Debussy:
Ludwig van Beethoven:

Date recorded: October 4 and 5, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Arts

Air date: January 12, 2009
Beethoven's 4th & 7th Symphonies

Nikolaj Znaider, violin and conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 Turkish
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Date recorded: September 20 and 27, 2008
Venue: United Church of Christ and Benson Great Hall, St. Paul

Air date: January 5, 2009
Opening Night: Handel's Ode for Saint Cecilia

Douglas Boyd, conductor | SPCO Anniversary Chorale with Dale Warland, artistic director
Claire Ormshaw, soprano | Joseph Gaines*, tenor

George Frideric Handel:
James MacMillan: Cantata,

Date recorded: September 5 and 6, 2008
Venue: Ordway Center for the Arts

50th Anniversary International Chamber Orchestra Festival

January 10-31, 2009
Minnesota Public Radio presented a special series of live performances featuring The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in concert with four visiting orchestras.

January 31:
Haydn Symphonies Nos. 6 ("Le matin"), 7 ("Le midi") and 8 ("Le soir")
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor

January 24:
Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K. 136
(More about this this performance on TheSPCO.org)
C.P.E. Bach: Symphony in B minor, Wq. 182 No. 5
Haydn: Violin Concerto in C major, Hob. Vlla:1
Shostakovich/Barshai: Symphony for Strings and Winds, Op. 73a (arranged from the String Quartet No. 3)
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Ruggero Allifranchini, director and violin
Rachel Podger, director and violin

January 17:
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor
Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen (US Premiere)
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra & members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Anu Tali, conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, director and piano

January 10:
Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra & the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Douglas Boyd, conductor

Beethoven's Symphonies
Professor David B. Levy of Wake Forest University and MPR's Michael Barone explore the masterwork Symphonies of Beethoven, movement by movement with musical examples.

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