The Boston Symphony Orchestra has unveiled their programme for the season year under their artistic direction of Andris Nelson. With several premieres of commissioned pieces as well as a more traditional repertoire that reflects both the orchestra’s strong German musical roots and Nelson’s influence of Russian classical music, the 2016/2017 season brings a rich and varied programme with an exceptional number of piano concertos, performed by such renowned pianists as Lang Lang, Hélène Grimaud, Yefim Bronfman, and Emanuel Ax, to name just a few.

Continuing in their tradition of commissioning and premiering new works by contemporary composers, in the upcoming season the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present several new pieces by Eric Nathan, Timo Andres, Sofia Gubaidulina, George Benjamin, Julian Anderson, and Matthias Pintscher, not to forget the orchestra’s new Artistic Partner Thomas Adès who will start the three-year collaboration with the BSO by conducting his own Totentanz.

Other guest conductors making an appearance with the orchestra next season are Jakub Hrůša,Charles Dutoit, Bramwell Tovey, Christoph von Dohnányi, Sakari Oramo, François-Xavier Roth and Alain Altinoglu. Their ranks will be joined by the BSO’s Assistant Conductors Moritz Gnann and Ken-David Masur and their Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink.  The list of soloist with whom the BSO will share their stage includes Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alisa Weilerstein, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gidon Kremer and Renaud Capuçon, as well as the stellar combination of Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Erin Morley, and Franz Hawlata who will appear in Rosenkavalier, opening the Richard Strauss operas in concert series.

In the forthcoming season, two composers will be highlighted in particular; under the baton of Andris Nelsons, the orchestra will perform all four Brahms Symphonies, his Piano Concertos 1 and 2 and A German Requiem. The BSO’s award-winning recordings of Shostakovich’s symphonies for the Deutsche Grammophon will continue with the “Shostakovich under Stalin’s Shadow program”, featuring his Symphony No. 7—Leningrad, Symphony No. 6 and a suite from King Lear.

European music lovers will, however, have a chance to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform even before the beginning of the 2016/2017 season, thanks to their spring European Tour. May 3 – 11, 2016, the BSO will give 9 concerts in Germany, Luxembourg, and Austria, presenting Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 and a composed programme of Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Thaikovsky, Debussy and Ravel. For further information on dates and venues, please see https://www.bso.org/Performance/Listing.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s full 2016/2017 season listing can be found here:https://www.bso.org/brands/bso/features/2016-17-bso-season/season-overview.aspx. 

Ester Lavoie Fialová