23/24 CSO Season
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Spotlight on Winds & Strings
The Winstead Chamber Series concludes its 23/24 season with a collection of music highlighting the CSO’s winds and strings. From the folk-inspired Schulhoff Concertino and the reflective Reinecke Trio, to the rhapsodic and rhythmic Trio from Khachaturian and the crafted harmonies of Schumann’s String Quartet, there is something for every chamber music fan to love.
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Program
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SCHULHOFF: Concertino for Flute, Viola and Double Bass
REINECKE: Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major
KHACHATURIAN: Clarinet Trio
SCHUMANN: String Quartet in A Minor
DVOŘÁK SYMPHONY NO. 8
Katharina Wincor, conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 is filled with optimistic and lyrical music, leading to a finale of fanfares and dances. Conductor Katharina Wincor, who led the May Festival's 2022 production of Candide, returns to Music Hall and welcomes cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, our 2024 MAC Music Innovator, for Shostakovich's raw and rhythmic first Cello Concerto.
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SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture
SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No. 1
DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 8
WIRES featuring BRYCE DESSNER
Louis Langrée, conductor
Bryce Dessner, composer
Katia and Marielle Labèque, duo pianos
“Wires that connect us, wires that make sound and wires that separate us from one another.”
– Bryce Dessner
Like an interwoven tapestry of wires, both literal and metaphorical, composer Bryce Dessner — member of Grammy-winning band The National — along with piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque join Louis Langrée and the CSO to explore the 21st century sound.
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Program
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DESSNER: Wires
SATIE arr. Debussy: Gymnopédie No. 1
SATIE arr. Debussy: Gymnopédie No. 2
DESSNER: Concerto for Two Pianos
BEETHOVEN 7 & DESSNER PREMIERES
Louis Langrée, conductor
Alice Sara Ott, piano
If Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is known as a musical embodiment of fate, his Seventh carries the spirit of freedom and liberation, with catchy, dance-like melodies woven throughout. Bryce Dessner, founder of Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival and a member of the Grammy-winning band The National, shares two of his works for orchestra.
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Program
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Bryce DESSNER: Mari
Bryce DESSNER: Piano Concerto (CSO Co-Commission, US Premiere)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7
LOUIS' GRAND FINALE
Louis Langrée, conductor
Latonia Moore, soprano
In his final program as Music Director, Louis Langrée and the CSO share the stage one more time for a performance that will pay tribute to highlights of their time together over the past 11 years. Grammy Award-winning soprano Latonia Moore will join the CSO for the world premiere of a new orchestral song cycle by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis, whose piece You Have the Right to Remain Silent profoundly impacted Louis and left a poignant impression on livestream viewers at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The program also includes Ravel’s mythical and airy Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, a work that Louis and the Orchestra performed on tour in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai in 2017; Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 2, which was last performed in 2015 as part of that season’s One City, One Symphony initiative; and Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which was a part of an all-French program that opened the Orchestra’s 2018-19 season at the newly renovated Music Hall.
Expect moving music and memories, celebrating the final performances of the CSO’s beloved Music Director.
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Program
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BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 2
Anthony DAVIS: Broken in Parts (CSO Commission, World Premiere)
Paul DUKAS: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Maurice RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2