Name: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2
Start: 2026-03-08T00:00:00
Location: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Philadelphia Orchestra is set to captivate audiences with a lineup of exceptional choral performances in its upcoming 2025-2026 season. Featuring timeless works by Handel, Mahler, and Mozart, the season promises to be a grand celebration of musical genius. Under the baton of the acclaimed conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and featuring world-class soloists, each piece will be brought to life with unparalleled artistry and emotion. Explore the highlights of these anticipated performances, set in the renowned Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

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Ying Fang

Joyce DiDonato

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

 Joe Miller

Philadelphia Orchestra

Philadelphia Symphonic Choir

Concertmaster David Kim steps into the spotlight in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, a breathtaking, emotionally intense thrill ride. Rafael Payere, whose five-star reviews hail performances “ablaze with color, intensity and strength” (Cleveland Classical), leads this heart-pounding program.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Three great classics in one must-hear program! Superstar violinist Hilary Hahn performs the melodic Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2, flanked by performances of one of Tchaikovsky’s most buoyantly joyful works and Shostakovich’s powerful Sixth Symphony. A great concert to share, whether you’re a longtime classical music buff or new to the experience.

Hilary Hahn Plays Prokofiev

Passion defined Tchaikovsky’s life, and the tempests of his emotional life inspired some of the most beautiful music ever written. His Fourth Symphony took shape during a troubled time and encompasses heartbreaking swings between despair and exuberant hope. It is led here by an audience favorite, the “expressive and imaginative” Xian Zhang. The concert opens with Britten's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, perhaps more well-known as The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, but heard here in its version without narration.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4

Yannick continues the Orchestra’s exploration of Mahler with one of the composer’s most enduring classics. Shaking the heavens, Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony is a vast, spectacular work requiring a large orchestra as well as organ, chorus, two soloists, and multiple offstage musicians. In its sublime ending, majestic and awe-inspiring, a heavenly choir sings and in that moment, Mahler wrote, “a feeling of overwhelming love fills us.”

Mahler’s Symphony No. 2

Liszt’s piano concertos challenge even the most virtuosic pianists, and his passionate Second is no exception, traversing the keyboard with knuckle-cramping, breakneck passages that render the player’s hands a blur. Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, a “marvelous, moving” artist (The New York Times) whose “technical finesse borders on the supernatural” (The Seattle Times), is more than equal to the challenge. Buckle up for a wild ride in this virtuoso display! 

Liszt’s Piano Fireworks

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Víkingur Ólafsson

Composed during a tumultuous period in his life, the great Romantic composer Robert Schumann’s Second Symphony is a musical journey, as he called it, “of many joys and sorrows.” Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop leads this beautiful masterwork, on a program with Rachmaninoff’s blazing Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, performed by a pianist of “enchanting, sensitive lyricism” (The Jerusalem Post).

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There are artists who seize the public imagination, and perhaps none has done so as spectacularly as Lang Lang. Whether he’s performing for billions, as at the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony, or for a small group of school children, his artistry and passion is on full display. In this one-night-only engagement, the celebrated pianist joins Yannick and the Orchestra in Beethoven’s lyrical Piano Concerto No. 2. Tickets will fly for this concert; order early to avoid missing out. 

Lang Lang and Yannick

A pair of masterworks from a prodigiously gifted composer who shaped the music of his lifetime and centuries thereafter. Bold and brilliant, Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 is a cyclone of dramatic energy that leaves listeners on the edge of their seats. In his Requiem, Mozart summoned all the fire and brimstone hell could hold, making ominously real the awful majesty of death and the miracle of redemption.  

Mozart: Great and Glorious

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Copland captured the American spirit in his music, so evocative of windswept prairies, mountain hollows, and the optimism and resilience idealistically attributed to the inheritors of the new world. Like Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Rodeo, his Third Symphony—the source of his Fanfare for the Common Man—summons that irrepressible spirit in a deeply satisfying listening experience.

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Mahler’s Symphony No. 2

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