Upcoming broadcasts
Tune in Sundays at 7 PM as Brian Lauritzen hosts a new series featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, recorded live in concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
See the broadcast schedule below:
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Gershwin & Strauss Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s relationship with Gershwin’s Concerto in F started when the pianist was just 14 years old. Over four decades of performances, his love and jazz-infused interpretations have only deepened for a showpiece, which he says exudes “utter joy” that leaves every member of the audience and orchestra with a “smile on their face.” The opening of Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra was made famous by Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, but beyond the brass and bombast that signal the sunrise lies a marvelous and ambitious symphonic poem that channels nature, science, and questions of the unseen world. Teddy Abrams leads the LA Phil in this orchestral showpiece and Caroline Shaw’s The Observatory inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer's experience looking down at the shape of Los Angeles and up at the night sky from Griffith Observatory.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Teddy Abrams, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Caroline SHAW The Observatory (LA Phil commission) (except FRI) GERSHWIN Concerto in F R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Tchaikovsky & Pereira Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony embodies a profound journey, rife with dramatic orchestral color, tumultuous emotions, and passionate themes of fate and triumph. Percussionist-turned-conductor Gustavo Gimeno leads the symphony after guiding the orchestra through the suspenseful brass-filled suite of love and obsession from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo before a world premiere spotlighting two of the LA Phil’s own when Principal Percussionist Matthew Howard performs the new concerto by Principal Timpanist and composer Joseph Pereira.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Gimeno, conductor Matthew Howard, percussion
HERRMANN Suite from Vertigo Joseph PEREIRA Percussion Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission) TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Seoul Festival with the LA Phil: Night 1 South Korea is home to an ever-expanding cohort of inventive composers with fresh ideas and talented performers who have made names for themselves at many of the world’s finest concert halls. In the first of two Seoul Festival programs with the LA Phil, composer Unsuk Chin curates a night showcasing Korean composers and artists who are shaping musical culture and building connections from Seoul to Los Angeles. Composer and UCLA assistant professor Kay Kyurim Rhie was born in South Korea, raised in LA, and she blends influences ranging from film and jazz to European avant-garde to Korean folk melded with the blues. Hankyeol Yoon leads the LA Phil in the world premiere of her new song cycle. Texu Kim’s lullaby-inspired Viola Concerto takes its name “Ko-oh” from the Korean baby-talk word for “sleep,” and he musically explores the idea of sleep as both a nightly occurrence and a mortal and final destination. USC Thornton faculty Yura Lee performs the world premiere of Kim’s revised viola showpiece. In 2006, Sunwook Kim became the first Asian and youngest winner in 40 years when he took top prize in the prestigious Leeds competition with a performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1. The work has remained close to his heart, recording it twice and earning praise by Gramophone for his “beauty of line and sound” and “melodies [that] are molded with great sensitivity,” particularly in the soulful adagio, and Kim joins the LA Phil to cap off the evening with one of his specialties.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Hankyeol Yoon, conductor Sunwook Kim, piano Yura Lee, viola Unsuk Chin, curator
Sunghyun LEE new work for orchestra (world premiere LA Phil commission) Kay Kyurim RHIE new song sycle (world premiere, LA Phil commission) Texu KIM Viola Concerto "Ko-Oh" (world premiere of revised work, LA Phil commission) BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 This series is made possible through the endowed LA Phil Broadcast Program Fund, generously supported by the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.
Recent Broadcasts On Demand
Los Angeles Philharmonic Ludovic Morlot, conductor Seth Parker Woods, cello
GRANADOS Tres danzas españolas Julia ADOLPHE Cello Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission) RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL Boléro
Los Angeles Philharmonic Ludovic Morlot, conductor Seth Parker Woods, cello
GRANADOS Tres danzas españolas Julia ADOLPHE Cello Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission) RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole RAVEL Boléro
