Music Director Jader Bignamini conducts Brahms’s dramatic Third Symphony. The music moves in relentless torrents of intensity that transform into joyous affirmations. Having performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, teenage pianist Alexandra Dovgan makes her Orchestra ...

Beethoven’s third attempt at an opener to his only opera stands alone, distilling the drama of the story. A concerto by Bruch doubles up on virtuosos, featuring DSO Principal Clarinet Ralph Skiano and Principal Viola Eric Nowlin. Schumann’s pull-on-your-heartstrings Second Symphony is another sta...

Scottish conductor Sir Donald Runnicles leads a bucket-list experience—Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony at Orchestra Hall. This is music-making on the largest possible scale; a breathtaking masterpiece of strings and shattering brass inspired by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; a cathedral of sound designed...

Having “played her way into the forefront of exciting young conductors,” (Dallas Morning News), Marie Jacquot leads imaginative works by French composers. Ravel interprets dances and fairy tales. Poulenc does the same with fables, adding “the characteristic mélange… that makes [his] voice so unmi...