The following are Music Critic Stephen Wigler's picks of five don't-miss concerts on next season's Baltimore Symphony Orchestra schedule:

* Mahler's Symphony No. 9. David Zinman, conductor. Sept. 17, 18 and 19

* Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Yuri Temirkanov, conductor. Dec. 17, 18 and 19

* John Corigliano's Fantasia on an Ostinato and Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony." Leonard Slatkin, conductor. Jan. 7, 8 and 9

* Bartok's Cello Concerto, Bloch's Schelomo and Stephen Albert's Cello concerto. David Zinman, conductor, and Yo-Yo Ma, cellist. March 4 and 5

* Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, Sibelius' Symphony No. 3 and world premiere of a work by Adolphus Hailstork. David Zinman, conductor, and Nelson Freire, pianist