Beethoven unfurls a grand paean to brotherhood, and we can’t help but be moved.

It’s a heart-on-sleeve sort of affair as two effusive musical masters hit their stride in tempest-tossed works.

The remarkable alchemy of Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony, and the music of Mahler continues its fascinating evolution in a program featuring the Fifth Symphony.

Julia Fischer stars in Bruch's legacy-making concerto while Pulcinella sees Stravinsky in a delightfully neoclassical mood.