October 2019 begins with a major tour to Latin America. Joined by violinist Veronika Eberle, the OSM will travel to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Santiago in Chile, Buenos Aires in Argentinaand the cities in Mexico.

The touring programmes include works by Brahms and Bartók, as well as Mozart and Mahler. At the end of this series of seven concerts to Latin America, Kent Nagano and the OSM will first perform at the Symphony Centre in Chicago on October 15 in a concert with the OSM’s own resident pianist Denis Matsuev, and on February 19, 2020, in Toronto, in a programme of Berlioz, Dusapin, and Beethoven with Olivier Latry, Organist Emeritus of the OSM.

Delivering on an invitation to perform in New York, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréaland Kent Nagano take the stage at the prestigious Carnegie Hall for the 45th time in the Orchestra’s history. Mikhaïl Pletnev will be heard in Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54, while two men’s choruses from the University of Illinois and bass Alexander Vinogradov join the Orchestra to perform Shostakovich’s Symphony no.13 in homage to victims of anti-Semitism and inspired by the poem Babi Yar by the Soviet writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Veronika Eberle, violin

Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77 (38 min.)
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Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 (36 min.)

Veronika Eberle, violin

Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 3 in G major, K. 216 (24 min.)
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Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp minor (68 min.)

Veronika Eberle, violin

Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77 (38 min.)
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Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 (36 min.)

Veronika Eberle, violin

Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77 (38 min.)
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Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 (36 min.)

Veronika Eberle, violin

Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77 (38 min.)
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Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 (36 min.)

Veronika Eberle, violin

Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 3 in G major, K. 216 (24 min.)
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Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp minor (68 min.)

Concert presented by

Veronika Eberle, violin

Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 3 in G major, K. 216 (24 min.)
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Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp minor (68 min.)

Veronika Eberle, violin

Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77 (38 min.)
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Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 (36 min.)

Concert presented by

Veronika Eberle, violin

Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 3 in G major, K. 216 (24 min.)
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Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp minor (68 min.)

Denis Matsuev, piano

Prokofiev, Symphony no. 1 in D major, op. 25, “Classical” (14 min.)
Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43 (22 min.)
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Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 (36 min.)

Concert presented by

Kent Nagano, conductor
Olivier Latry, OSM organist emeritus

Berlioz, Les Troyens: “Royal Hunt and Storm” (10 min)
Pascal Dusapin, Waves, Duo for Organ and Orchestra* (25 min.)
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Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68, “Pastoral” (43 min.)

* Co-commissioned by the OSM, the Hambourg Elbphilharmonie, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre du Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, and the Orchestre de la Suisse romande in Geneva. The work is presented in its North American premiere.

Kent Nagano, conductor
Alexander Vinogradov, bass
Mikhaïl Pletnev, piano
Choirs from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)
Andrew Megill, chorus master

Schumann, Piano Concerto, op. 54 in A minor (31 min.)
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Chostakovitch, Symphony no. 13, op. 113, « Babi Yar » (60 min.)