San Francisco Symphony Podcasts

Stravinsky’s Firebird

Serge Diaghilev was turned down by four composers before turning to Igor Stravinsky to write the...

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Ravel: Mother Goose

In a piece he first wrote for children to play on the piano, Maurice Ravel found magical new...

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Saint Saëns Organ Symphony

A child prodigy, Saint-Saëns was not only a gifted composer but an accomplished pianist who...

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Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra

In his Three Pieces for Orchestra, Alban Berg finally "graduated" from his studies with Arnold...

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Ravel La Valse

In 1906, Maurice Ravel made some sketches for a tribute to Johann Strauss, the Waltz King. By...

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Bruckner Symphony No. 4

Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 "The Romantic" was a departure from his usual symphonic testaments of...

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Strauss: Metamorphosen

"Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings was his musical response to a life, and a...

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Charles Ives Symphony No. 3 & 4

With 19th-century Americana spirit, MTT and the SF Symphony, pianist Peter Dugan, and the SFS...

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Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4

Bach's Orchestral Suite #4 is a dazzling combination of rhythmic complexity and sonic brilliance;...

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Shostakovich Symphony No.7 Leningrad

Shostakovich's 7th Symphony became a symbol of the wartime alliance between the US and the USSR....

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Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Originally composed for solo piano (and later orchestrated by Ravel), Pictures at an Exhibition...

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Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

Mozart's final symphony was nicknamed the "Jupiter," and - like the planet and the Roman god that...

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Schumann Symphony No. 3

Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, Rhenish, completed in 1850 after his much-celebrated appointment as...

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Mahler Symphony No. 6

Mahler Symphony No. 6 In summer 1903, Mahler was at his happiest time of life.  Married to...

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Mendelssohn Symphony No.4

On an extended journey through Italy in 1830 and 1831, Felix Mendelssohn began work on his Fourth...

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Mahler Symphony No. 9

Mahler’s last complete work, the Symphony No. 9, was composed following a whirlwind period of...

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Mozart Symphony No. 31

When Mozart went to Paris, he may not have found the job he was looking for, but he still found...

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Beethoven Symphony No. 6

To escape the city of Vienna, Beethoven often spent his summers in the rural counties surrounding...

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Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

The Fourth Symphony was a product of the most turbulent time of Tchaikovsky's life - 1877, when...

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Sibelius Symphony No. 2

At the close of the nineteenth century, Finnish natives were enjoying a renaissance of their...

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