Lyrical melodies and a passionate emotion highlight what may be classical music’s most famous incomplete work. Schubert's Symphony in B minor, Unfinished opens softly and glides effortlessly between unexpected harmonies, achieving a haunting, somber beauty.

Conductor Fabien Gabel made his Minnesota Orchestra debut in a concert featuring Stravinsky's theatrical Suite from Pulcinella.

French composer Georges Barboteu had a parallel career as a horn performer, and many of his works feature that instrument, including his 1940 Esquisse (French for Sketch). The flute opens this piece with a miniature cadenza; the harp then provides an underpinning of up-and-down arpeggios above wh...

Music Director Osmo Vänskä conducts the conclusion of the first movement of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, in this clip from a performance recorded on Friday, March 19, 2021.

The symphony’s originality is evident from its first instant: the key signature says B-flat major, but the symphony opens i...

On Friday, March 5, guest conductor Juraj Valčuha led the Minnesota Orchestra in an inspiring performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s sparkling Italian Symphony.

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Concertmaster Erin Keefe and Associate Concertmaster Felicity James have a musical conversation in Steve Reich's Duet for Two Solo Violins and String Orchestra.

This performance was recorded as part of Musical Menagerie, a Young People's Concert Experience, on February 12, 2021, in partnership ...

Elegy - In Memoriam Stephen Lawrence memorializes Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager murdered in 1993 by a gang of young white men. British composer Philip Herbert paid tribute to him with a poignant elegy composed for 18 string players—each representing one year of Lawrence’s life—that t...

Minnesota Orchestra colleagues and friends Principal Oboe John Snow and Principal Second Violin Peter McGuire were featured in a Minnesota Orchestra concert on Friday, January 29, in a double concerto by J.S. Bach.

In this clip, they perform the opening section of the final movement, Allegro, wi...

The three-movement First Symphony of Chevalier de Saint-Georges—the French composer-violinist born in Guadeloupe who was also a champion fencer—is lively and songful, highlighting the composer’s particular panache for writing for string ensembles.

On Friday, January 15, Principal Bassoon Fei Xie made his solo debut with the Minnesota Orchestra in a performance of Mozart's Bassoon Concerto, as part of a live concert broadcast conducted by Osmo Vänskä.

"Whether smoothly negotiating the fastest passages, sweetly singing on the lovely slow mo...