The CSO’s emotional range emerges in Mahler’s world-building First Symphony.
Program
GINASTERA: “Malambo” from Four Dances from Estancia
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3
MAHLER: Symphony No. 1, Titan
Venue
Music HallConcert Duration
Approximately 104 minutes, including intermissionSeries
Friday Mornings
Saturday Evenings A
What's Interesting
The CSO’s emotional range emerges in Mahler’s First Symphony — a world-building Titan that rises from ethereal beginnings to tectonic eruptions of orchestral light. The finale is truly an enormous treat. Bruce Liu, First Prize Winner of the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition, makes his Music Hall debut with Prokofiev’s colorful and fantastically cinematic Third Piano Concerto.
What our Musicians are Saying
"One of my jobs as Principal Bass is to perform solos when called for by the composition, and Mahler's First Symphony has one of the most famous bass solos in the third movement. Until this point, the symphony is over all an optimistic work, but the solo bass and solo timpani create a ghostly, shadowy mood. This big, bold symphony sounds magnificent in Music Hall. I feel very lucky to work in this hall, it is one of my favorites. I’ve performed with the CSO in most of the famous concert halls around the world. Visually and acoustically Music Hall is a sumptuous experience. Very few American orchestras get to perform in a concert hall that was around when Mahler was alive and I find this link to past traditions very special. And don’t forget that in the early 1900s, the CSO performed the American premieres of Mahler’s Third and Fifth Symphonies in Music Hall. In Cincinnati USA we have one of the grand European concert halls!"
—Owen Lee, Principal Bass
Sponsors
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Sponsor
These concerts are endowed by Martha Anness, Priscilla Haffner & Sally Skidmore in loving memory of their mother, LaVaughn Scholl Garrison, a long-time patron of the Orchestra. Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.