AT THE SUMMIT: Strauss + Dessner
SEP 20-21, 2019
Louis Langrée conductor
Katia & Marielle Labéque pianos
R. STRAUSS: Don Juan
BRYCE DESSNER: Concerto for Two Pianos [U.S. Premiere]
STRAUSS: An Alpine Symphony
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19/20 CSO Full Season
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RACHMANINOFF AND PROKOFIEV
Fri Apr 17, 2020 | 11:00 am
Sat Apr 18, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Xian Zhang, conductor
Sergio Tiempo, piano
Rachmaninoff’s immensely popular Rhapsody pairs with Prokofiev’s heroic Fifth Symphony. Learn more.
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Program
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CAROLINE SHAW: Observatory [CSO Co-Commission]
RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5
CSO PROOF: SURREALIST EL TROPICAL
Wed Apr 22, 2020 | 7:30 pm
Rosie Herrera, curator and choreographer
Clyde Scott, video designer
Luke Kritzeck, lighting designer
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Fellini stumbles down an alley in old Havana, and music washes over him like a primordial soup of neon and tropical heat. Learn more.
MENDELSSOHN & BRAUNSTEIN
Fri Apr 24, 2020 | 7:30 pm
Violinist and CSO Artist-in-Residence Guy Braunstein collaborates with CSO string players for a birthday gift from Felix Mendelssohn. Learn more.
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Shostakovich: Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano
Bartók: Contrasts
Françaix: Divertissement
Mendelssohn: Octet
MENDELSSOHN + STRINGS
Sat Apr 25, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Sun Apr 26, 2020 | 2:00 pm
Guy Braunstein, conductor, violin, artist-in-residence
Artist-in-residence Guy Braunstein conducts and performs as violin soloist in a program that pulls music from thin air. Learn more.
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WALKER: Lyric for Strings
OHAD BEN-ARI: Forgiveness and Hope [World Premiere]
SCHOENBERG: Verklärte Nacht
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3, Scottish
MOZART'S PARIS
Fri May 8, 2020 | 11:00 am
Sat May 9, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Louis Langrée, conductor
Philippe Bernold, flute
Emmanual Ceysson, harp
Mozart and Gluck imbibe and reinvent the music of France. Learn more.
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GLUCK: Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide
MOZART: Concerto for Flute and Harp
GLUCK: Overture and Dance of the Furies from Orphée et Eurydice
MOZART: Symphony No. 31, Paris
SEASON FINALE: MAHLER 3 + ADOLPHE PREMIERE
Sat May 16, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Sun May 17, 2020 | 2:00 pm
Louis Langrée, conductor
Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano
Women of the May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati Boychoir
Mahler puts his ears to the world and hears a symphony as big as dreams. Learn more.
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JULIA ADOLPHE: Paper Leaves on Fields of Clay [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3
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ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER PLAYS BEETHOVEN
SEP 28-29, 2019
Eun Kim Sun conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
GABRIELLA SMITH: New Work [World Premiere, CSO Co-Commission]
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4
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ROUSE PREMIERE + RAVEL'S BOLERO
OCT 18-19, 2019
Louis Langrée conductor
Guy Braunstein violin, artist-in-residence
RAVEL: Bolero
LALO: Symphonie espagnole
ROUSE: Symphony No. 6 [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
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DVOŘÁK’S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
OCT 25-26, 2019
Gustavo Gimeno conductor
Javier Perianes piano
Francisco COLL: Hidd’n Blue [U.S. Premiere]
FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9, From the New World
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PETROUCHKA + TCHAIKOVSKY
NOV 8-9, 2019
Louis Langrée conductor
Gil Shaham violin
JULIA WOLFE: Fountain of Youth [CSO Co-Commission]
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka
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AMERICAN LIFE
NOV 15-16, 2019
Thomas Wilkins conductor
Louis Schwizgebel piano
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: An American Port of Call
JAMES LEE III: Sukkot Through Orion’s Nebula
PRICE: Piano Concerto
STILL: Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony
ELLINGTON: Harlem
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WINTER DAYDREAMS
NOV 30-DEC 1, 2019
James Conlon conductor
Lise de la Salle piano
WAGNER: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürenburg
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A Minor
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams
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SCHUMANN'S PARADISE
DEC 6-7, 2019
Paolo Bortolameolli conductor
Sally Matthews soprano (Peri)
Sarah Shafer soprano
Emily D'Angelo mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Johnson tenor
Joshua Stewart tenor
Davóne Tines bass-baritone
May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director
SCHUMANN: Paradise and the Peri
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RENÉE FLEMING AND RACHMANINOFF
JAN 10-11, 2020
Louis Langrée conductor
Renée Fleming soprano
Behzod Abduraimov piano
FRIDAY
L. BOULANGER: Of a Spring Morning
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 2
HOLMES: La Nuit et l'Amour
R. STRAUSS: Four Last Songs
SATURDAY
L. BOULANGER: Of a Spring Morning
R. STRAUSS: Liebeshymnus
R. STRAUSS: Morgen!
R.STRAUSS: Caecilie
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 2
Additional Works: From Broadway and Film
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125TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
JAN 18-19, 2020
Louis Langrée conductor
Aaron Diehl piano
Vadym Kholodenko piano
Tal Rosner video artist
Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, Wilbur Lin conductor
May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director
WILLIAM WINSTEAD: Passages in Time [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
YSAŸE: Exil!
ELLINGTON: New World A-Comin'
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue (For Pianola and Orchestra)
DANIEL BJARNASON: Collider [CSO Commission]
SCRIABIN: Symphony No. 5, Prometheus, The Poem of Fire
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SCHUBERT'S THE GREAT
JAN 24-25, 2020
Simone Young conductor
Alban Gerhardt cello
RAVEL: Pavane pour une infante défunte
UNSUK CHIN: Cello Concerto
SCHUBERT: Symphony in C Major, The Great
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PLAY OF LIGHT: Ravel's L'Enfant
FEB 7-8, 2020
Louis Langrée conductor
Isabel Leonard mezzo-soprano
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano
In collaboration with CCM
SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
RAVEL: L’Enfant et les sortilèges
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BEETHOVEN AKADEMIE 1808
FEB 29 - MAR 1, 2020
Louis Langrée conductor
Inon Barnatan piano
May Festival Chorus
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
BEETHOVEN:
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Ah, Perfido!, Scene and Aria
Gloria from Mass in C
Piano Concerto No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Sanctus from Mass in C
Improvised Fantasia
Choral Fantasy
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