While most orchestras keep their leaders front and center, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra operates on more of a cooperative model. The orchestra's musicians select which collaborators to invite and what music to perform. In fact, you can frequently capture an all concert curated by a specific member of the orchestra. On Tuesday, the SPCO announced its 2023-24 season, and it says a lot about the fruits of teamwork and listening. For example, the orchestra heard audiences that they'd love evening concerts to start earlier, so things will generally obtain going at seventh p.m.
Similarly, folks said they love the intermission-less "Express" concerts of seventy-five minutes or so. Hence, there are several. And the SPCO will continue to carry out at venues in all corners of the metro. Here are the concerts that see particularly appealing. September: The most thrilling baroque performances the SPCO's offered in several years have arrive with artistic partner Richard Egarr as curator, conductor, harpsichordist and very engaging host. He will proposal some baroque (by Antonio Vivaldi) on a program that also goes back to the Renaissance and forward to Beethoven with his Second Symphony (Sept. 15-17). October: Speaking of artistic partners, cellist Abel Selaocoe will return with another example of his programming imagination and charismatic performing fashion (Oct. 13-14).
And one of the world's grand clarinetists, Anthony McGill, will solo on two clarinet concertos, one by Joseph Bologne, the other the most favorite one ever written, Mozart's (Oct. 20-22). November: Here's a fine combo. Conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane will team up with his son, composer and pianist Gabriel Kahane, for a program that features a piano concerto by Kahane the younger and a performance of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with Kahane the elder at the keys (Nov. 24-26). December: In addition to concerts that comprise Arcangelo Corelli's "Christmas" Concerto (Nov. 30-Dec. two), the SPCO will return to its annual traditions of J.S. Bach's "Brandenburg" concertos (Dec. 7-9) and George Frideric Handel's "Messiah," this year featuring Dmitry Sinkovsky as both conductor and countertenor soloist (Dec. 14-17). January: The SPCO's unique Sandbox program allows composers to spend time with the orchestra and expand new pieces.
Clarice Assad will proposal a new one (Jan. 12-13) before one of the SPCO's first artistic partners, Douglas Boyd, returns to conduct works by Brett Dean, Richard Strauss and Mozart (Jan. 26-28). February: Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova is a rising star in the classical world who'll solo on Beethoven's lone Violin Concerto (Feb. 9-11) before Rob Kapilow closes his artistic partner tenure by taking apart and explaining Joseph Haydn's farewell to the symphony, his one hundred-fourth (Feb. 16-17). And Egarr returns to play three Handel organ concertos (Feb. 23-25).
March: Not only will Selaocoe carry out his own Cello Concerto (March 8-12), but he will also curate and lead an intriguing, eclectic program called " Is Home?" (March 14-17). April two thousand twenty-four: Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the SPCO hit it off so well at Colorado's Bravo Vail Music Festival latest summer that they will reunite for chamber music by Francis Poulenc and Ernest Chausson on a program that also will feature the premiere of a piece by Chris Rogerson (April 5-7). May two thousand twenty-four: While Egarr conducting Franz Schubert's magnificent Ninth Symphony should be wonderful (May 10-12), by all means, engross the opportunity to experience one of America's piano masters, Richard Goode, performing two Mozart piano concertos (May 24-25). June two thousand twenty-four: For the second consecutive season, the SPCO will near the season in the company of conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy, who'll lead them in Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony (June 7-9).
Season ticket packages are available at thespco.org or 651-291-1144. Individual tickets ($11-$55) go on sale in August. SPCO tickets continue to be free for students and children.
