BPO Classics Repertoire 2023-2024
23 September 2023
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
MUSSORGSKY-RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
6, 7 October 2023
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
RÓZSA Violin Concerto
DEBUSSY Ibéria
RAVEL Boléro
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Tianwa Yang, violin
21, 22 October 2023
JENKINS Rhapsodic Overture
DVOŘÁK Romance
RAVEL Tzigane
ELENA ROUSSANOVA Moments of Arrival
HAYDN Symphony No. 101, “The Clock”
Julius Williams, conductor
Tessa Lark, violin
3, 4 November 2023
RACHMANINOFF Vocalise
RACHMANINOFF Isle of the Dead
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Alexander Malofeev, piano
11, 12 November 2023
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Fabio Bidini, piano
8, 9 December 2023
RANDOL BASS Fanfare: Joy to the World
TCHAIKOVSKY Valse Finale et Apotheosis from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
TCHAIKOVSKY Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
ADAM / arr. Luck O Holy Night
VIVALDI Concerto in C major for Piccolo and Orchestra, RV 443
DARIN KELLY Of Nights and Lights
BIZET / ad. Hoffmann Farandole from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
HERMAN / arr. Wendel We Need a Little Christmas
RESPIGHI The Adoration of the Magi from Trittico Botticelliano
MACGIMSEY Sweet Little Jesus Boy
MENDELSSOHN There Shall a Star from Christus, Op. 97
HANDEL Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah
ANDERSON A Christmas Festival
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Natalie Debikey Scanio, piccolo
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
12, 13 January 2024
TCHAIKOVKSY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
JIMMY LÓPEZ BELLIDO Symphony No. 3, “Altered Landscape”
Laura Jackson, conductor
Ying Li, piano
27, 28 January 2024
MICHAEL ABELS Delights and Dances
RANDALL SVANE Oboe Concerto *world premiere*
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Henry Ward, oboe
2, 3 February 2024
MASON BATES Desert Transport
DARON HAGEN Film Noir: Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
Robert Moody, conductor
D.J. Sparr, electric guitar
17, 18 February 2024
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS “From the Diary of Anne Frank”
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Rabbi Cantor Penny Myers, narrator
1, 2 March 2024
RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole
STRAUSS, R. Don Quixote
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Roman Mekinulov, cello
15, 16 March 2024
REGER Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven
PRICE Violin Concerto No. 2
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
Leon Botstein, conductor
Melissa White, violin
23, 24 March 2024
COPLAND Billy the Kid Suite
FOOTE Cello Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 (Unfinished)
WAGNER Excerpts from Die Meistersinger
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Julian Schwarz, cello
5, 6 April 2024
NINA SHEKHAR Lumina
CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS The Universe in Ecstatic Motion
HOLST The Planets, Op. 32
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Marina Piccinini, flute
Women’s Choir of Buffalo
20, 21 April 2024
VIVIAN FUNG Prayer
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Rune Bergmann, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
3, 4 May 2024
RANJBARAN Saratoga Overture
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19
BACH Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
BRAHMS Serenade No. 2 in A major
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Timothy Chooi, violin
Nikki Chooi, violin
11, 12 May 2024
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Nikki Chooi, violin
Jaclyn Grossman, soprano
Hannah Shea, alto
John Tiranno, tenor
Lester Lynch, bass
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
1, 2 June 2024
MAHLER Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Ilana Davidson, soprano
Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus