Three spectacular soloists grace this program that follows a thread of musical styles from Baroque to early Classical. Co-concertmaster Nathan Olson is front-and-center in Bach’s Violin Concerto, whose poignant Adagio is one of his most sublime creations, with the solo violin exquisitely embroidering the underlying bass line. Our principal trumpet does the honors in Haydn’s tour de force concerto, traversing the instrument’s registers by leaps and bounds, but also bringing out its singing qualities. Mozart’s festive “Haffner” Symphony ends in a romping rondo, that Mozart said had to be played “as fast as possible.” In a dramatic concert aria, Kathryn Henry calls down the wrath of the gods on her perfidious lover. Hell hath no fury…

Beethoven, Bach, Haydn & Mozart

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Two wartime poets expressed disillusionment; two composers spun their poems into evocative musical scores. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Principal Violist Zhenwei Shi stands in for Childe Harold in Berlioz's picturesque Harold in Italy. Robert Spano presents the "fearless" piano virtuoso Conrad Tao in Bernstein's plaintive and sassy symphony "The Age of Anxiety," inspired by W.H. Auden's Pulitzer Prize-winning poem.

America @ 250: Spano Conducts Bernstein + Berlioz

The Woodruff Arts Center

Join conductor Anna Rakitina and mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital for an unforgettable evening of musical brilliance. Avital’s groundbreaking artistry in the U.S. premiere of Fazil Say's Mandolin Concerto sets the stage for Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, a powerful journey from fate’s darkness to triumphant victory. With sweeping melodies and dramatic contrasts, this masterpiece will leave you moved and inspired.

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Mozart, Say & Tchaikovsky

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Grammy Award-winning violin icon Joshua Bell unleashes cosmic grandeur and world-shaking virtuosity in The Elements, a stunning sound-plus-video experience which summons the elemental power of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space through spellbinding music and immersive video projections. Eternal questions of love, death, and the hereafter are explored through soaring, transcendent music of Wagner and Strauss.

Joshua Bell Returns: The Elements in Concert

Jones Hall

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The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

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The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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From a daring maritime adventure to a captivating showcase for the soulful cello – in the company of vibrant Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and exceptional SCO Principal Cello Philip Higham.

Schumann Cello Concerto

Aberdeen Music Hall

The Queen's Hall

City Halls

Experience a mesmerizing fusion of musical worlds as the legendary Wu Man brings the haunting beauty of the pipa to life in Zhao Jiping’s Trumpet Concerto. The pipa is a 2,000-year- old, lute-like instrument and Man, the world’s leading pipa player. Lan Shui leads the RPO in an exhilarating program featuring John Adams’ The Chairman Dances, Fauré’s evocative Pelléas et Mélisande, and the swirling intensity of Ravel’s La Valse. A night of rhythm, romance, and riveting orchestral color awaits!

Rhythm & Romance

Eastman Theatre

In Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland vividly and colourfully depicts a spring day in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains. This ballet score portrays a pioneer community in the early 1900s, following a young man as he marries and settles down to build a home.

Appalachian Spring

Stockholm City Hall

The word “epic” could have been invented to describe the music of Götterdämmerung, the heaven-and-earth-shaking culmination of Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle, complete with vengeance, magic fire, and the redemptive power of love beyond death. Orchestral excerpts from this operatic thrill ride meld with the instantly charming neoclassicism of Prokofiev’s First Symphony and the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Zones of Blue, a clarinet concerto performed by its dedicatee and longtime friend of The Cleveland Orchestra, Jörg Widmann.

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung

Severance Music Center

RPO: Rhythm & Romance

Join conductor Anna Rikitina and mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital for an unforgettable evening of musical brilliance. Avital’s groundbreaking artistry sets the stage for Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, a powerful journey from fate’s darkness to triumphant victory. With sweeping melodies and dramatic contrasts, this masterpiece will leave you moved and inspired.

2025/26 CSO Artist-in-Residence Joyce DiDonato is “a supreme artist, as much through sheer triumph of spirit as through musicianship” (Financial Times). The esteemed mezzo-soprano sings the Neruda Songs, Peter Lieberson’s heartbreakingly sensuous song cycle set to the poetry of Pablo Neruda. Edward Gardner concludes the program with Walton’s tumultuous and alluring First Symphony.

DiDonato Performs Neruda Songs

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle & Magdalena Kožená

Gasteig HP8

Bach’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 are at the heart of this concert of classics. The program also features a pair of captivating masterworks inspired by folk dances, by Hungarian composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály.

Bach and Mozart Piano Classics

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The season closes in a dramatic and triumphant fashion with some of the greatest classical music ever written. Jennifer Higdon’s brief but striking fanfare sets the tone before Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto opens with a commanding, majestic flourish, instantly igniting a sense of awe. After a moment of lyrical reverie that seems to suspend time, the music propels forward with irrepressible joy and optimism. In contrast, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 delves deep into the human experience, embodying the struggle between fate and the quest for happiness. From its powerful brass fanfare—fate’s ominous call—to the electrifying energy of the finale, the symphony is a deeply cathartic journey through anguish, resilience and eventual exhilaration.

Beethoven & Tchaikovsky

Cincinnati Music Hall

Piazzolla Four Seasons

Artis–Naples

Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts

Just like the epic saying "When in Rome," you can expect an epic concert led by Marcelo Lehninger to make the audience feel like they are in Rome. Featuring the must-hear Italian composer Ottorino Resphigi's Pini di Roma or known as the Pines of Rome.

When in Rome

DeVos Performance Hall

Sol Gabetta returns to Antwerp, following her stunning performance of Lalo’s concerto last season, this time captivating audiences with Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Heralded by Gramophone as ‘one of the best around’, Gabetta’s performance is a masterclass in balancing stillness and glorification, imbuing the piece with profound emotion. Maestro Mikko Franck, renowned for his mastery of orchestral timbres, leads the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra through this poignant journey, culminating in Strauss’s majestic Tod und Verklärung. A concert not to be missed by lovers of deep musical expression.

Sol Gabetta shines with Elgar

Queen Elisabeth Hall

Music Center De Bijloke

"We want you to feel a part of that, because you are." These words from Nathalie Joachim’s Family resonate with the spirit of the SLSO’s 25/26 season. Our extraordinary year culminates with the lush soundscapes of Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé, collaborations with the IN UNISON and St. Louis Symphony Choruses, and music by two of the SLSO’s dearest friends. As nearly 300 musicians fill the stage and captivated audiences fill Powell Hall, we celebrate the transformative power of music and community.

Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé

Powell Hall

This exciting new theatrical concert from director Bill Barclay and Concert Theatre Works marries Aaron Copland’s stirring incidental music with Mark Twain’s poignant observations of a changing America. Copland's compositions, including Music for Movies and Music for the Theatre, meet excerpts from Twain's essays, apocryphal stories, speeches, and articles. Music Director Ken-David Masur leads the full orchestral power of the MSO, joined by six costumed actors and enhanced by projected visuals. The merging artistry of two critical pillars of American identity provides a soothing & thought-provoking take on the polarizing questions vexing our body politic today using majesty, tolerance, wisdom, and humor.

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Schumann Cello Concerto

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Rhythm & Romance

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Appalachian Spring

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung

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Piazzolla Four Seasons

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Appalachian Spring

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