The album, Stéphane Denève’s first recordings with the SLSO, revolve around love: Bernstein’s Serenade was inspired by musings on love from Plato’s Symposium while Williams’ work was arguably inspired and eventually dedicated to his suddenly deceased wife. By combining these two concert pieces, this album centers the symphonic work of Bernstein and Williams, two composers closely associated with their music for films.

The album’s selected works stand as emblems of the extraordinary theatricality of Mozart’s piano concertos as performed by Orli Shaham, conducted by David Robertson. Each highlights the spirit of dialogue between soloist and orchestra, the ever-shifting exchange of musical ideas, colors, and textures used by Mozart to create a world of limitless dramatic possibilities.

Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony — a musical manifesto on American ideals and the melding of jazz and classical — captures the 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis joining forces with the SLSO, conducted by former Music Director David Robertson, in performances of Swing Symphony in front of the sold-out crowds at Powell Hall in St. Louis on May 4-6, 2018.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with former Music Director David Robertson are featured on a new recording of John Adams’ Violin Concerto with violinist Leila Josefowicz, released by Nonesuch Records. It was described by the Boston Globe as having “the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer and his work; this time Adams also mingles virtuoso show with soul, popular appeal with the staying power that comes from intellectual interest.”

Pianist Kirill Gerstein releases The Gershwin Moment: Rhapsody in Blue & Concerto in F recorded live with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and former Music Director David Robertson. Gerstein is particularly enthusiastic about the partnership with SLSO and Robertson, with whom he has a long and varied history of collaboration.

Leila Josefowicz began her recording collaboration with the SLSO with John Aadms’ Scheherazade.2, an homage to the orchestral masterpiece by Rimsky-Korsakov with nearly the same name. Josefowicz received a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for her performance on the album.

This recording garnered the SLSO’s seventh Grammy® for the Best Orchestral Performance of 2014. Recorded live at Powell Hall by the SLSO under the direction of former Music Director David Robertson with saxophonist Timothy McAllister, this recording features two works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams.

The premiere recordings of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams’ Doctor Atomic Symphony and Guide to Strange Places, are performed live at Powell Hall by the SLSO under the direction of former Music Director David Robertson. Doctor Atomic is a suite of music from the composer’s acclaimed opera of the same name.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of John Adams’ Harmonielehre, the weekend of March 16-18, 2007, remains one of the extraordinary collaborations between former Music Director David Robertson and the SLSO. They owned it. And you can own it too, with this digital-only release of SLSO’s Harmonielehre available for download.