Classical Series

Dvorák's Symphony No. 9

• Rouse: Phaethon
• +Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto
• DvorÁk: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

Big music all around: The brilliant German cellist Alban Gerhardt is back in town to play a monumental creation by Prokofiev. Then it’s the Dvorák symphony that’s on everyone’s list of all-time favorites.

Sponsored by: Willamette University

Pinchas Zukerman

• Rossini: Overture to Il signor Bruschino
• Schumann: Symphony No. 2
• Haydn: Violin Concerto in C major
• Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet overture-fantasy

Expect an evening of musical delights as one of the music world’s living legends, Pinchas Zukerman, is back — instrument in one hand, baton in the other — to collaborate with us again as both soloist and conductor.

Sponsored by: Herb and Ruth Aschkenasy in honor of Nancy Stockdale

The Classical Guitar

• Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
• +Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre
• Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem
• Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Count on one colorful moment after another at a concert that features the ever-popular Pictures at an Exhibition, one of Joaquin Rodrigo’s best-loved concertos for guitar, and the musician who’s been called “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time.”

Salerno-Sonnenberg Plays Piazzolla

• Copland: Symphony No. 2, “Short Symphony’
• +Piazzolla/Desyatnikov: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
• Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, “Organ”

Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has performed with us many times, but it’s safe to say you’ve never heard her — or us — do anything like this together: It’s the Oregon Symphony premiere of a sultry masterpiece by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.

Arnaldo Cohen Plays Tchaikovsky

• Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
• Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
• +Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
• DvorÁk: Scherzo capriccioso

Last time pianist Arnaldo Cohen joined us, he did all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos in a single weekend. This time it’s only one — but another great one it is: the much-loved Tchaikovsky First.