Composer Bryce Dessner will be in the spotlight for two weekends at the Cincinnati Symphony, the second featuring the U.S. premiere of his new piano concerto, with Alice Sara Ott as soloist. Dessner’s short work, Mari, opens the May 3-4 program, which concludes with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony under the baton of Louis Langrée. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2324-cso-season/beethoven-symphony-no.-7--dessner-premieres/
Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan makes her Minnesota Orchestra debut with a May 9-10 program that opens with Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza. Benjamin Beilman plays Korngold’s Violin Concerto, and the program closes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, inspired by Ukrainian folk tunes. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/tchaikovsky-korngold-and-chin/
Joseph Young makes his debut on the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s podium conducting Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, From the New World on May 10-11. Alexi Kenny will be the guest soloist for Barber’s Violin Concerto. https://www.mso.org/concerts/dvoraks-new-world/
As a fitting farewell to music director Louis Langrée, who is leaving the Cinncinati Symphony after the 2023-34 season, the orchestra has commissioned a new “orchestral song cycle” by Anthony Davis. The world premiere will take place May 10-12. Soprano Latonia Moor will be the soloist. The second half of the program will be Stravinsky’s […]
Accompanied by musicians from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Florentine Opera will give performances of Astor Piazzolla’s sensual María de Buenos Aires on May 17-19. Composed in 1968 with a libretto by Horacio Ferrer, the fantastical opera tells the story of a girl swallowed up by the city, only to haunt it after death. Catalina […]
A program on May 18 called Crowning Glory by Milwaukee’s Concordia Chamber Orchestra will feature a rarely heard symphonic work, Bränningar (“Breaking Waves”), by Swedish composer Helena Munktell (1852-1919). Two movements from Max Richter’s re-imagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 complete the program. http://www.concordorchestra.org/concerts.html
Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Möst will conduct the world premiere of Jüri Reinvere’s Concerto for Violin and Harp, featuring violinist Leila Josefowicz and harpist Trina Struble. This May 23-25 program also includes the “Prelude and Liebestod” from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Mozart’s Serenade No. 10, the Gran Partita, for 12 wind instruments and […]
