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WQXR Broadcast: June 9, 2023 at 8 pm

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WQXR Broadcast: December 22, 2019 at 7 pm

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WWFM Broadcast: April 14, 2023

Concert originally performed March 10, 11, 12 & 13, 2022.

Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony bring out the best of Tchaikovsky with three of his most famous works: Capriccio italien, the fantasy-overture of Romeo and Juliet and his Suite from Swan Lake. Plus, Daniil Trifonov makes his second appearance as the 2021–22 season’s Artist-in-Residence to perform a concerto that was written for him by DJ and composer Mason Bates.

Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien

Mason Bates Piano Concerto

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture

Tchaikovsky Suite from Swan Lake

WWFM Broadcast: December 27, 2019

Concert originally performed November 7, 8, 9 & 10.

The New Jersey Symphony performs Spanish- and French-inspired showpieces alongside an electrifying US premiere from one of China’s foremost composers, Qigang Chen, with returning violinist Ning Feng.

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio espagnol

QIGANG CHEN La joie de la souffrance for Violin and Orchestra (US Premiere and New Jersey Symphony Co-Commission)    

SAINT-SAËNS Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso  

FALLA Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat 
 

WWFM Broadcast: October 4, 2019 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed June 6, 7, 8 & 9, 2019.

New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Thrill to the magical partnership of Music Director Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony in a pair of breathtaking works in this heart-pounding season finale. 

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream

RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

WWFM Broadcast: May 31, 2019 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed April 5, 6 & 7, 2019. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Sarod (Indian lute) master Amjad Ali Khan takes the stage with his sons and the New Jersey Symphony for an unforgettable meeting of East and West. Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

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AMJAD ALI KHAN Samaagam: A Concerto for Sarod, Concertante Group and String Orchestra

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

WWFM Broadcast: March 29, 2019 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed January 25, 26 & 27, 2019. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Pianist Daniil Trifonov performed the piano concerto. Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

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STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto

SCRIABIN Poem of Ecstasy (New Jersey Symphony Premiere)

WWFM Broadcast: February 22, 2019 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed January 10, 11, 12 & 13, 2019. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Pianist Emanuel Ax performed the piano concerto. Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

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MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22

TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony

WWFM Broadcast: December 28, 2018 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed June 7, 8, 9 & 10, 2018. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Violinist Gil Shaham performed the violin concerto. Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

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BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide

BRAHMS Violin Concerto

MAHLER Symphony No. 1

WWFM Broadcast: March 2, 2018 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed Jan 11, 13 & 14, 2018. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Pianist George Li performed the piano concerto. Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

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Chen Yi's Ge Xu

Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3

Respighi's Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome

WWFM Broadcast: January 5, 2018 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed Nov 2–5, 2017. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Pianist Conrad Tao performed the piano concerto. Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

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Beethoven’s Overture to Coriolan

Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5

WWFM Broadcast: November 24, 2017 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed Oct 7 & 8, 2017. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Pianist Jeremy Denk performed the piano concerto. Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

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Beethoven’s Overture to The Creatures

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique

WWFM Broadcast: June 2, 2017, at 8 pm

Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto and Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals originally performed April 7-9, 2017.
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Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto 

Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals

WWFM Broadcast: April 27, 2017, at 8 pm

Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 originally performed April 7-10, 2016.
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Strauss’ Suite from Der Rosenkavalier and Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 originally performed Nov 3-6, 2016.
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Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave, Strauss’ Suite from Der Rosenkavalier and Haydn’s Symphony No. 102

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4

WWFM Broadcast: March 31, 2017, at 8 pm

Concert originally performed Oct 27–30, 2016. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang conducted. Recorded at NJPAC in Newark.

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Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from Eugene Onegin and Piano Concerto No. 1, performed by Simon Trpčeski.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5

WWFM Broadcast: November 29, 2019 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed July 20, 2019. Cristian Măcelaru conducts the New Jersey Symphony premieres of dynamic works by the composers of the New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, a multi-faceted program that promotes new music and emerging composers. The Institute composers will briefly share the inspiration behind their pieces in an evening that will show the vibrant future of orchestral music. More info on the institute here.

See videos and read Q&A’s with the composers here.

DAN CAPUTO Liminal

PATRICK O’MALLEY Rest and Restless

IVÁN ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ A Metaphor for Power

BORA YOON The Wind of Two Koreas

STEVEN MACKEY Portals, Scenes and Celebrations (East Coast Premiere)

WWFM Broadcast: October 19, 2018 at 8 pm

Concert originally performed July 14, 2018. David Robertson conducted. Recorded at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton.

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JONATHAN CZINER Resonant Bells

NATALIE DIETTERICH Aeolian Dusts

AARON HENDRIX Night Train

BRIAN SHANK Into the Rose Garden

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World Premieres from Four Emerging Composers with the New Jersey Symphony

JOANN FALLETTA conductor
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SAAD HADDAD Takht
NOAH KAPLAN Forest Through Forest
SAM LIPMAN Song of the Bhagavan
ALYSSA WEINBERG Tereza Slumbers

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