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The iconic composer-conductor paired two recent works with a suite from the beloved Spirited Away in a performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra. 

The Philadelphia Orchestra offers a musically and dramatically urgent performance of Wagner’s complete opera, buoyed by world-class soloists.

Lara Downes and Yannick Nézet-Séguin offer the subscription debut of Price's Piano Concerto in One Movement, followed by the ultimate crowd pleaser, Beethoven's Ninth.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin presents the composer's "Tragic" Symphony without an ounce of fat on the bone, a relentless and exhilarating journey. 

First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang dispatches the perilous demands of Bartók's Second Violin Concerto with practiced ease, on a program that also featured a complete Firebird.

Stutzmann's program also features the Orchestra's premiere of Missy Mazzoli's arresting tone poem, Orpheus Undone. 

The Philadelphia Orchestra's concert also served as a tribute to Michael Tilson Thomas, who was to have conducted the performance before withdrawing for cancer treatment.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin smartly surrounds a guaranteed crowd-pleaser – Brahms’ First Piano Concerto – with less familiar works by Julia Wolfe and Louise Farrenc. 

Gustav Holst's perennial audience favorite provides pure comfort food, paired here with Ravel and an organ rarity by Alfredo Casella.

Yuja Wang's performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto may have been the main draw, but Yannick Nézet-Séguin paired the familiar centerpiece with two neglected works by 20th-century American composers.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin pairs Mahler's weighty Ninth Symphony with Jake Heggie's Songs for Murdered Sisters, which considers the scourge of domestic violence against women.

After a 19-year absence, the legendary conductor returned to the podium of the Philadelphia Orchestra, leading an inconsistent performance of a signature work.

Alongside works by Bernstein and Copland, conductor David Robertson and pianist Nicolas Hodges give the US premiere of Jolas's cheeky concerto bTunes.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin brings surprising intimacy to Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, which contrasts his Romantic approach to Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto.

In his second week of local performances, the Finnish composer-conductor offers a lush performance of music by a beloved collaborator, the late Kaija Saariaho.

Beginning a two-week residency, Esa-Pekka Salonen juxtaposed a work of his own with selections from two composers with which he is deeply identified: Sibelius and Steven Stucky.

After an eight-year absence, Rattle returned to deliver the kind of Mahler performance only he can offer: probingly intelligent and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Returning to the Philadelphia Orchestra's repertoire after a 15-year absence, Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony shares a program with songs by the composer's wife, Alma. 

Prokofiev's Symphony no. 5 in B flat major and Guillaume Connesson's Concerto da Requiem, both composed in moments of international tragedy, form a thoughtful bill that also includes serene languor of Debussy’s Prelude à l’après-midi d’un faune. 

For his performance of Mozart's C major Concerto, Emanuel Ax plays a new concert grand designed by the late architect Rafael Viñoly.

Fine solo playing from cellist-composer Cris Derksen and pianist Tony Siqi Yun lift a somewhat disappointing program centered on Sibelius and Rachmaninov.

After recording all five of Beethoven's piano concertos together, Stutzmann and Haochen Zhang joined together for a rousing interpretation of the Emperor, followed by a lively Seventh Symphony. 

Joshua Bell brings virtuosic fireworks and generous tone to works by Chausson and Vieuxtemps, while Christoph Eschenbach delivers a Brahms 1 devoid of fresh insight.

Tugan Sokhiev leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in a powerful performance of Shostakovich’s haunting Fourth Symphony. Shorter pieces by Gabrieli and Britten offer an enjoyable prelude.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin invites the Marcus Roberts Trio in place of a traditional soloist, and the group brings a freewheeling, improvisatory touch to Gershwin's masterpiece. 

A conductor-less concert of Violin Concertos and bagatelles fails to show orchestra and soloist off to their full potential.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra give the world premiere of Esteban Benzecry’s MUYUY, The circle of life before a performance of Florence Price's Fourth Symphony. 

The US premiere of Jimmy López Bellido's Ephemerae, a Philadelphia Orchestra co-commission, leads the listener by the nose through a world of olfactory sensations.

Guest conductor David Robertson led ponderous accounts of the "Pastoral" Symphony and Haydn's Cello Concerto no. 1, alongside a new work by the promising American composer Reena Esmail.

After a five-year absence, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra for a rare performance of Anton Bruckner's commanding Sixth Symphony.

A new work by Clarice Assad, featuring Principal Bassoon Daniel Matsukawa and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, comes sandwiched between impish Berio and complex Rachmaninov.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin premieres a new edition of William Grant Still's Fourth Symphony and joins Daniil Trifonov for Gershwin's rousing Concerto in F.

With a potential strike looming, Yo-Yo Ma joins Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin for a surprisingly tame performance of Shostakovich's psychologically dense Cello Concerto no. 1.

The Philadelphia Orchestra closed its season by pairing Berlioz's epic Symphonie Fantastique with Walkabout, a concerto for orchestra that investigates composer-in-residence Frank's Peruvian heritage.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin combines the composer's unfinished Ninth Symphony, Te Deum and the motet Christus factus est to create an ultimate realization of religious faith and artistic expression.

Guest conductor Matthias Pintscher pairs Webern's "idyll for large orchestra" with Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto, featuring an elegant Philippe Tondre as soloist.

Personnel changes plague the world premiere of Vespers of a Blessed Earth, which sounds an urgent musical alarm on the harms of climate changes.

The Ukrainian-Finnish conductor finds fresh insight in Sibelius' Fifth Symphony and introduces local audiences to the living Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi.

The principal guest conductor brings a rough edge to the orchestra's sound in Brahms' First Symphony, with Gil Shaham projecting lyrical elegance in the composer's Violin Concerto.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Dawson's first appearance in a subscription concert just this week, programmed alongside Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto with rising soloist Tony Siqi Yun.

The popular pianist performs all four of the Russian composer's piano concertos, plus his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, over the course of two nights at Verizon Hall.

The astonishing Korean pianist faces a David vs Goliath contest in Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. 

The young American conductor leads propulsive readings of Ravel and John Adams in his Philadelphia Orchestra debut, and partners perfectly with soloist Augustin Hadelich in Sibelius' Violin Concerto.

A season in Verizon Hall rarely goes by without a performance of Dvořák’s New World Symphony, yet the Principal Guest Conductor brings new insights to the fore of this familiar piece.

The organ virtuoso is the undisputed star of an otherwise shaky program of Baroque selections.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra pair Clara Schumann's inventive Piano Concerto in A minor with Florence Price's fascinatingly complex Third Symphony, bookended by unnecessary Ravel.

In her first appearance with the orchestra this season, Nathalie Stutzmann offers overly tentative readings of Verklärte Nacht and Siegfried Idyll, alongside perfunctory excerpts from Don Giovanni.

The young violinist continues the ongoing rediscovery of American composer Florence Price, premiering new editions of her First and Second Violin Concertos.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a high-energy program of works by Coleman, Liszt and Dvořák, but there are moments of reflection too, not least Trifonov's Ukrainian encore.

The gala audience rejoices in Lang Lang's virtuosic performance of Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto, while Yannick Nézet-Séguin offers a revelatory reading of Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.