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Alonzo King and LINES Ballet unearth new corners of Ravel’s enchanting Mother Goose, while Peter Sellars plumbs the depths of Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung in a new staging featuring soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams.

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Alonzo King & Peter Sellars

Davies Symphony Hall

Settle in as the world’s most electrifying artists and ensembles converge at Davies Symphony Hall.

Yefim Bronfman

With a repertoire few can match, the formidable Yefim Bronfman showcases his seemingly infinite range on the piano.

Yefim Bronfman 2024

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, lauded as a “compelling musical storyteller” by The New York Times, joins the NY Phil in Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1, by turns energetic and elegiac. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Berlioz’s Romantic tale of a young artist’s heart and fantasies, complete with a harrowing, hallucinatory march to the scaffold and a chaotic witches’ sabbath.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Salonen, and Symphonie fantastique

Lincoln Center

Mesmerizing soundscapes with famed conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen! In his mischievous Karawane, the “chorus’s hypnotic incantations have the undergirding of a glistening orchestral landscape, sometimes swaying, sometimes blooming” (The New York Times). It’s the perfect first course for the fantastic feast of music to come: the complete score of Ravel’s achingly beautiful Daphnis and Chloe. With its transfixing lyricism and unique orchestration (including wind machine and wordless chorus), this sensual, evocative classic conjures up a mystical world where love is all.

Salonen Conducts Daphnis and Chloe

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

In his Second Symphony, Mahler constructs a universe all his own, exploring themes of death and afterlife using a massive orchestra, offstage brass and percussion, chorus and vocal soloists. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen guides listeners on this journey from the great, tragic opening march, through pastoral dances and gentle songs to a final tableau of trumpet calls, percussive thunderbolts and the hymn of resurrection.

Mahler Resurrection

Symphony Center

Evening Concert

Libbey Park

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Orchestral Series debut with Dmitri Shostakovich’s subtly sinister Cello Concerto No. 1. Shostakovich once told Sofia Gubaidulina that his wish for her was always to continue along her “mistaken path”, turning a critical remark from her Soviet censors into a virtue. Her poignant Fairytale Poem portrays a small piece of chalk in the hand of a child who draws “castles, gardens with pavilions and the sea with the sun on the pavement.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen & Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Anton Bruckner bends time and space in the service of a massive—and massively satisfying—symphonic construction. Yefim Bronfman tames the tempests of Robert Schumann’s only piano concerto.


Esa-Pekka Salonen & Yefim Bronfman

Mahler’s Third Symphony contains multitudes. When the monumental score was almost finished, he predicted that it would be “something the like of which the world has never yet heard! In it the whole of nature finds a voice.” As its creator, he was both god and unconscious instrument “played on by the universe.”

Salonen Conducts Mahler 3

Severance Music Center is Cleveland’s home for symphonic music and other presentations, including Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Concert Hall and Reinberger Chamber Hall. We are strongly committed to making everyone feel welcome. The doors to Severance open three hours prior to most performances.

Salonen Conducts Salonen

Severance Music Center

Revel in the sonic splendor of the CSO with two of its signature works: Strauss’ brash symphonic portrait of the infamous libertine Don Juan and Bartók’s exhilarating Concerto for Orchestra, a virtuosic tour de force for every instrument. The organ in Salonen’s “boldly cinematic” (Los Angeles Times) Sinfonia concertante adds another thrilling aural dimension.

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

A taut and gripping thriller, Bartók’s one-act opera follows Duke Bluebeard and his newest wife Judith as she opens the seven doors of his castle and discovers increasingly disturbing sights. Opera stars Christian Van Horn and Ekaterina Gubanova bring to life these ill-fated characters. Juxtaposed with this macabre folktale is Beethoven’s joyful Second Symphony.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Conductor, Music Director

Events

Jun 7, 2023 - Jun 9, 2024

Alonzo King & Peter Sellars · San Francisco Symphony

Apr 21, 2024

Yefim Bronfman · San Francisco Symphony

Apr 24, 2024

Yefim Bronfman 2024 · Los Angeles Philharmonic

1 - 4 May, 2024

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Salonen, and Symphonie fantastique · New York Philharmonic

16 - 18 May, 2024

Salonen Conducts Daphnis and Chloe · Philadelphia Orchestra

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