Upcoming VSO season to include pop concerts, film projects and a one-night visit with Yo Yo Ma

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has just released plans for its 2023/24 season. And what plans they are.

Naturally, there are all sorts of specials, including a one-night only visit with Yo Yo Ma, film projects a-plenty, and lots and lots of pops concerts.

But what makes this the best season in many is the wealth of classical programming, some stellar international soloists, and a number of very interesting guest conductors.

Music Director Otto Tausk leads the lion’s share of the two flagship Masterworks series. He starts the Masterworks Gold season in mid-September with Mahler’s darkest symphony, the Sixth, and bookends the season with Mahler’s incomparable Das Lied von der Erde to conclude the Masterworks Diamond concerts in June.

In between, Tausk and others offer one great symphony after another in the Masterworks lineup: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, Prokofiev’s wartime Symphony No. 5, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, and John Adams’s symphony-by-another-name, Harmonielehre.