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This Spring: Larcher World Premiere with New York Phil and Bavarian Radio Symphony

This spring, Alisa Weilerstein gives the world and European premieres of Austrian composer Thomas Larcher’s new concerto – a co-commission of the New York Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – with the New York Philharmonic under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and the Bavarian Radio Symphony under Alan Gilbert, respectively.

This performance marks the third new concerto for Alisa this season, following Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot and Richard Blackford’s The Recovery of Paradise.

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New Album and #36DaysOfBach

On April 3, Pentatone released Alisa Weilerstein’s recording of the complete Bach Cello Suites.

One of the crowning glories of the classical canon, Bach’s suites have long been featured in Alisa’s programming and have come to play an increasingly central part in her career. The LA Times has called her interpretations of Bach, “a true model of the meaning of mastery when it comes to what a string instrument is capable of.”

As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Alisa has channeled her deep love and appreciation for Bach into a 36-day long project called #36DaysofBach.

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Barber Concerto with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

This February, Alisa Weilerstein travels to Michigan, where she joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and John Storgårds in performing Samuel Barber’s technically demanding yet intensely lyrical Cello Concerto. The concert also features Beethoven’s beloved Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral,” as well as Outi Tarkiainen’s recent work Midnight Sun.

Click here for tickets to the performances on February 21, 22, and 23.

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