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2025–26 Season

Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Bruckner

Oct 16 - Oct 18, 2025

Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Bruckner

Oct 16 - Oct 18, 2025

Featured Artists

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Conductor

Philippe Tondre

Oboe

Ricardo Morales

Clarinet

Daniel Matsukawa

Bassoon

Jennifer Montone

French Horn

In its rave review of Esa-Pekka Salonens 2024 concerts with the Orchestra, the Philadelphia Inquirer praised his extraordinary ability to draw inspired performances from the musicians: stunningly successful, the connection is strong … astonishing. Salonen returns to conduct Bruckners majestic Fourth Symphony, a musical event not to be missed. 

Famed conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen has ardent fans—composers, musicians, audience members, critics, and more—around the world. The New York Times described him as one of the most open-minded, open-eared and fundamentally cool artists in classical music … beloved and respected across the field.

In this program, Salonen leads a work that changed his life and set his path. After hearing Bruckners lyrical Fourth Symphony on the radio as a child, he said “maybe I should become a musician, if music can be like this.

Bruckner left many clues to the inspiration for this symphony, describing such images as a medieval city at daybreak, a religious procession, dashing horses, the tension and release of a thunderstorm … all of which are revealed to the listener as this magnificent work pours out.

Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante is shrouded in mystery, with many scholars over the years debating whether in fact Mozart wrote it. But there’s no mystery in the charm of this elegant, melodic work, especially in the hands of the four Philadelphia Orchestra principal musicians featured here as soloists: Philippe Tondre, Ricardo Morales, Daniel Matsukawa, and Jennifer Montone. 

Program

Mozart

Sinfonia concertante, for winds and orchestra 

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”)

Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”)