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Thomas Adès
(Nigel Luckhurst)
England's Thomas Adès is known as one of the most skilled and original composers and conductors of his generation. This broadcast from the Los Angeles Philharmonic features his annual visit to Walt Disney Concert Hall with a sampler of his works, plus one early 20th-century showpiece.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic's 23-year-old associate conductor Lionel Bringuier conducts a program featuring Berlioz’s swashbuckling Le Corsaire Overture, followed by Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, with Emanuel Ax as soloist.
In this week's performance from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, soloist Lars Vogt performs Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto No. 2 as part of a program that also includes works by Sibelius, Lindberg and Elgar.
In this week's broadcast from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, veteran Dutch conductor Edo de Waart leads the orchestra in a program that spans Chinese philosophy, Germanic story-telling and a popular Beethoven concerto.
Before conductor James Conlon lifted the baton in LA Opera’s production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this past spring, he crossed the street to Walt Disney Concert Hall to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The occasion: an all-Prokofiev program. It's the subject of this week's broadcast.
The veteran conductor Charles Dutoit is known for championing colorful works with a French or Spanish flavor and this week's broadcast from the Los Angeles Philharmonic illustrates why.
The Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden brings his kinetic podium style to the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program of Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and his countryman Johan Wagenaar.
