SIBELIUS Prelude and Suite No. 1 (from The Tempest)
SIBELIUS Six Humoresques
ADÈS Märchentänze
ADÈS Five Spells (from The Tempest)

Composer-conductor Thomas Adès’s Cleveland Orchestra conducting debut features two musical interpretations of Shakespeare’s The Tempest — one by Sibelius, and the ot...

EASTMAN Symphony No. 2
MARSALIS Trumpet Concerto (World Premiere)
DVORAK Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World")

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads a celebration of African American music: the symphonic tribute to spirituals in Dvorak’s "New World" Symphony, Eastman’s minimalist Second Symphon...

ADAMS 𝘌𝘭 𝘕𝘪𝘯𝘰

Hailed as “intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical” by the BBC, John Adams’s El Nino imagines a modern-day miracle, retelling the story of Handel’s Messiah through a constellation of references ranging from medieval chant to contemporary Latin American poetry. In conversation,...

RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
SALONEN Cello Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Salonen leads a shimmering performance of Ravel’s exquisitely French Le Tombeau de Couperin; his own demanding and evocative Cello Concerto, brought to life by Senja Rummukainen; and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5, a visionar...

HAYDN Symphony No. 44
VIVIER 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥
LIGETI 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘰
STRAUSS 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

Moving listeners through memory, love, loneliness, triumph, and surrender, Barbara Hannigan leads the Orchestra in a program of Haydn, Vivier, Ligeti, and Strauss. She discusses the role music played in he...

STAUD 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 (World Premiere)

A Cleveland Orchestra commission, Johannes Maria Staud’s percussion concerto was crafted with virtuoso percussionist Christoph Sietzen’s electric artistry in mind. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst offers a window into this symbiotic collaborati...

LOGGINS-HULL Can you see? (World Premiere)
BARBER Cello Concerto

A Cleveland Orchestra commission by Allison Loggins-Hull and Alisa Weilerstein’s rendition of Barber’s technically demanding yet infinitely rewarding Cello Concerto take center stage in this captivating program, conducted by Music ...

DEBUSSY 𝘓𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘳 (The Sea)
CHIN 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘢́ for Orchestra
BOULANGER 𝘋’𝘶𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘴 (On a Spring Morning)

Light, shade, and color play an integral role in this luminously French program of Boulanger, Debussy, and Korean composer Unsuk Chin. Conductor Alan Gilbert reminisces about his days as a...

ADÈS 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭 Symphony
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in a program of works by fiercely individualistic composers Thomas Adès and Jean Sibelius. Adès describes his surreal childhood influences and Wels...

SMITH 𝘛𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴
ADAMS 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘛𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘴?
SIMON 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘴
GLASS Façades from 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴
REICH Three Movements for Orchestra

Composer-conductor John Adams curates and conducts a program of living American composers — from minimalist icons Steve Reich and Phi...

DEUTSCH 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 (World Premiere)
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88

How does a composer envision a brand new piece of music after composing many? How can a conductor make a familiar piece feel new again? Franz Welser-Möst pairs the world premiere of Bernd Richard Deutsch’s 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 with...

ABRAHAMSEN 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 (World Premiere)
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2

Emerging from a collective period of isolation and reflection, Franz Welser-Möst, pianist Igor Levit, Principal Horn Nathaniel Silberschlag, and composer Hans Abrahamsen discuss the evocative power of silence and the recipro...