Yannick Nézet-Séguin has signed his first contract extension with the Philadelphia Orchestra since becoming their Music Director in 2012. His new contract will see him lead the orchestra until the end of the 2021-22 season. Nézet-Séguin is also the Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and has been the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain since 2000. He was also Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008-14.

Nézet-Séguin's first recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring alongside some Stokowski arrangements of Bach was well received in the January 2014 issue of Gramophone. Rob Cowan wrote: 'The Bach transcriptions are in a different class, so good in fact that they compare with Stokowski’s own recordings: the Passacaglia and Fugue thrilling to the core, the Fugue forging towards an exhilarating climax, much more full-bodied in this guise than in the raucous transcription that Respighi fashioned and that Toscanini favoured.'

In the video below, Nézet-Séguin talks about the special 'Philadelphia Sound':