The Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski (pronounced SIM-mun terp-CHESS-kee) first appeared at Disney Hall almost one year ago with the LA Phil under the direction of Dallas Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor Jaap Van Zweden in a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto.
On Tuesday night, Trpčeski returned to Disney Hall for a solo recital of works by [...]

While you are planning how to ring in another new year, you might also start thinking about the second half of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2010-2011 season because it promises to be a doozy.
First off, if you are a Brahms lover, heaven waits just around the corner. There are no fewer than eight concerts featuring [...]

The LA Phil’s longest serving music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen, returned to Los Angeles in his new position as Conductor Laureate for two series of concerts last week. The program this past weekend included works by Paul Hindemith and Richard Wagner.
When Salonen walked on stage for Sunday’s matinee concert, the appreciative audience erupted in an enthusiastic, [...]

Gustavo Dudamel, the L.A. Phil’s newly anointed music director, who took over the helm of the orchestra last year from its previous wunderkind, Esa-Pekka Salonen, didn’t actually conduct the L.A. Phil much last year because of a heavy schedule of previous engagements.
So, in fact, this year is his de facto first year as the principal [...]

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra is a great orchestra under the direction of any conductor, but when their 28-year-old Principal Music Director, Gustavo Dudamel, takes the podium, they are one of the world’s best orchestras.
And so it was on Saturday night when Dudamel led the orchestra in two works, each inspired by love and loss, [...]

Last night Jaap van Zweden, the director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), returned to LA to conduct the LA Phil in the overture, “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Op. 23 by the Dutch composer, Johan Wagenaar, the Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, and the Symphony No. 4 in E [...]

On April 3, Russian conductor Semyon Bychkov led the LA Phil in the challenging and expansive five-movement Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler, perhaps his best-known symphony after the First.
Mahler divided his Fifth Symphony into three sections with the first two movements comprising the first section, the extended Scherzo comprising the second section, and the [...]

April starts out with a bang at Disney Hall. And that’s no joke. For three nights beginning on Thursday, April 1, Russian conductor Semyon Bychkov leads the LA Phil in performances of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
On Wednesday, April 14, the St. Louis Symphony under the direction of David Robertson, visits Disney Hall in a performance of [...]

The Dutch conductor Edo de Waart is visiting LA this weekend leading the LA Phil in three varied works, “The Five Elements” by Chinese composer Qigang Chen, Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37, and Richard Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben.”
On Saturday, the concert opened with the quietest shimmers in the Chen to an especially [...]

This weekend, James Conlon is leading the LA Phil in a series of all-Prokofiev concerts, including the Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, the “Classical Symphony”; the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10; and selections from “Romeo and Juliet.”
The concert on Saturday night began a little late not just because [...]