A blazing season opener in Cleveland with Zimmermann and Vänskä

United StatesUnited States Prokofiev, R. Schumann, Tchaikovsky: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 22.9.2024. (MSJ)

Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Schumann’s Violin Concert with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä © Aireonna McCall-Dubé/CO

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2024-2025 season

The Cleveland Orchestra’s 107th season

Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni/TCO

The Cleveland Orchestra will launch its 107th season on 19 and 22 September with the return of Franz Welser-Möst conducting Prokofiev’s ‘Classical’ Symphony, Schumann’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony. It is Welser-Möst’s twenty-third season at the helm of the orchestra, and the programs are typical of the unexpected juxtapositions and contrasts that have been a feature of his tenure here. Many more such combinations lie ahead.

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Lang Lang and the Clevelanders make Saint-Saëns and Berlioz (and the occasional Muppet) blaze with life

United StatesUnited States Saint Saëns, Berlioz, ‘Lang Lang Plays Saint-Saëns’: Lang Lang (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 2.5.2024. (MSJ)

Lang Lang and Franz Welser-Möst after Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No.2 © Roger Mastroianni/Cleveland Orchestra

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Trenchant Elgar versus flashy Walton in Cleveland

United StatesUnited States López Ballido, Elgar, Walton: Sol Gabetta (cello), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (chorus director: Lisa Wong), Cleveland Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 13.4.2024. (MSJ)

Sol Gabetta in Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni

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Franz Welser-Möst returns to Cleveland, sounding ‘Frankly Wiser Than Most’

United StatesUnited States Krenek, Mahler, Bartók: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Liivestreamed on adella.com from the Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 13.1.2024. (MSJ)

Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Cleveland Orchestra in the livestream

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