BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 (arr. Konopka)
BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and the Orchestra thread two of Bartók’s demanding visions into a single, emotionally charged arc. Paired with favorites from Bartók’s ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, violist Sta...

MAHLER Selected Songs from 𝘋𝘦𝘴 𝘒𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯
MAHLER Selected Songs from 𝘓𝘪𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘴ä𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘑𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘻𝘦𝘪𝘵
MAHLER Symphony No. 7

Baritone Simon Keenlyside, a peerless interpreter of art song, performs selections from Mahler’s 𝘋𝘦𝘴 𝘒𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯 and 𝘓𝘪𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘴ä𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘑𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘻𝘦𝘪𝘵...

KRENEK 𝘒𝘭𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦
MAHLER Adagio from Symphony No. 10

Franz Welser-Möst traverses worlds of wit and longing in this evocative program. Krenek’s sly and restless 𝘒𝘭𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦, a forgotten work born of the turbulent 1920s, is followed by the intimate, meditative Adagio from Mahler’s final...

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,...

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...

MAHLER Symphony No. 4

Guest conductor Daniel Harding contemplates the distinct beauty of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and his profound connection to the composer’s work, as well as the privilege of performing such timeless masterpieces. Before the performance, Harding strolls to the Cleveland Museum...

COPLAND Suite from “Appalachian Spring”
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
ELLINGTON New World A-Comin’
COPLAND Suite from “The Tender Land”

This program of three quintessentially American composers paints a musical portrait of the country as they knew it: full of promises, tensions, and fraught beauty. ...

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson brings his elegant artistry to Mozart’s intimate and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 27, the composer’s final work in the genre. Ohlsson reminisces about growing up in a “transplanted European culture” just outside New York City, and, at age 9, att...

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...

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...