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...

Jader Bignamini leads the obliterating brass of Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, music filled with the composer’s signature style, growing more shockingly intense as it drives further into darkness. Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto showcases soloist Alina Ibragimova, “one of the most expressive vi...

Jader Bignamini leads Ravel’s nod to the past with "Le Tombeau de Couperin" and the composer’s Piano Concerto in G, a work that combines Ravel’s flair for orchestral color with pianistic virtuosity and the influence of jazz. The concert concludes with "Boléro," Ravel’s hypnotic masterpiece built ...