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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CSO PROOF: SINGULIS ET SIMUL
Wed Jan 29, 2020 | 7:30 pm
Keitaro Harada, conductor
Studio House of HMU
Central State University Marching Band
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Contemporary Arts Center, co-producer
Baroque music meets vogue ballroom culture. "Be one's self, together." Buy tickets.
PLAY OF LIGHT: Ravel's L'Enfant
Fri Feb 7, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Sat Feb 8, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Louis Langrée, conductor
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
In collaboration with CCM
Louis Langrée conducts Ravel’s fantastical story—a fully staged production that blooms with illustrated animations and imagination, starring Isabel Leonard in her Grammy-winning role as "the child." Learn more.
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SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
RAVEL: L’Enfant et les sortilèges
BEETHOVEN AKADEMIE 1808
Sat Feb 29, 2020 | 4:00 pm
Sun Mar 1, 2020 | 2:30 pm
Louis Langrée, conductor
Inon Barnatan, piano
May Festival Chorus
Dorothea Röschmann, soprano
Louis Langrée leads the CSO in a recreation of Beethoven’s legendary 1808 Akademie concert, a once-in-a-lifetime Beethoven experience. Learn more.
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SAT FEB 29, 2020
Part I: 4-6:30 pm
Dinner Pause: 6:30-8:30 pm
Part II: 8:30-10 pmSUN MAR 1, 2020
Part I: 2:30-5 pm
Dinner Pause: 5-7 pm
Part II: 7-8:30 pmBEETHOVEN
-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
CLASSICAL ROOTS 2020
Fri Mar 6, 2020 | 7:30 pm
Damon Gupton, conductor
CeCe Winans, vocalist
CSO Classical Roots Community Choir
We come together to celebrate the African American musical experience. This is what joy and inspiration sound like!
HANDEL IN ROME: The Delirium of Love
Fri Mar 13, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Sat Mar 14, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Thomas Dunford, lute
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Revel in music by Handel and Vivaldi in a program of Italian-inspired Baroque music. Learn more.
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VIVALDI: Lute Concerto
ZELENKA: Sinfonia à 8
HANDEL: Delirio Amoroso
MANNY AND MOZART
Fri Mar 27, 2020 | 11:00 am
Sat Mar 28, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Hear a piano legend, Emanuel Ax, interpret the music of Mozart. Learn more.
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MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8
BEETHOVEN NO. 8 + Sō PERCUSSION
Fri Apr 3, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Sat Apr 4, 2020 | 8:00 pm
Louis Langrée, conductor
Sō Percussion
Musical futurists Sō Percussion return and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 follows the mystery of creation. Learn more.
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LULLY: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme Suite
DAVID LANG: man made
SEBASTIAN CURRIER: New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8
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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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. Buy tickets.
TRANSFIGURED NIGHT
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 [U.S. 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: New Work [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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