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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RACHMANINOFF AND PROKOFIEV
Xian Zhang, conductor
Sergio Tiempo, piano
Rachmaninoff’s immensely popular Rhapsody pairs with Prokofiev’s heroic Fifth Symphony. Learn more.
CSO PROOF: SURREALIST EL TROPICAL
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
Violinist and CSO Artist-in-Residence Guy Braunstein collaborates with CSO string players for a birthday gift from Felix Mendelssohn. Learn more.
Shostakovich: Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano
Bartók: Contrasts
Françaix: Divertissement
Mendelssohn: Octet
MENDELSSOHN + STRINGS
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.
WALKER: Lyric for Strings
OHAD BEN-ARI: Forgiveness and Hope [World Premiere]
SCHOENBERG: Verklärte Nacht
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3, Scottish
MOZART'S PARIS
Louis Langrée, conductor
Philippe Bernold, flute
Emmanual Ceysson, harp
Mozart and Gluck imbibe and reinvent the music of France. Learn more.
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
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.
JULIA ADOLPHE: Paper Leaves on Fields of Clay [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3
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
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
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]
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
NOV 8-9, 2019
Louis Langrée conductor
Gil Shaham violin
JULIA WOLFE: Fountain of Youth [CSO Co-Commission]
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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