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Mahler’s Song of the Night Thursday, October 12, 2023, at 7:30 PM Friday, October 13, 2023, at 7:30 PM
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Robert P. Madison during Thursday’s concert (see page 4).
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Frühlingsmorgen
25 minutes
from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit (orch. Berio)
Ablösung im Sommer
from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (orch. Berio)
Revelge from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Urlicht from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Rheinlegendchen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Hans und Grete
from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit (orch. Berio)
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Gustav Mahler
I N TERMIS SI ON
20 minutes
Symphony No. 7 in E minor
75 minutes
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I. Langsam — Allegro risoluto, ma non troppo II. Nachtmusik: Allegro moderato III. Scherzo: Schattenhaft. Fliessend, aber nicht schell IV. Nachtmusik: Andante amoroso V. Rondo-Finale: Tempo I (Allegro ordinario) — Tempo II (Allegro moderato ma energico) Total approximate running time: 2 hours
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TCO DISTI NGU ISHED SERVIC E AWARD
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award
The Cleveland Orchestra is proud to honor Robert P. Madison as the 2023–24 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, recognizing extraordinary service to the Orchestra.
Robert P. Madison, who turned 100 years old this past July, has been a vital member of the Orchestra’s Board of Trustees and the Greater Cleveland community.
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has garnered a long and impressive list of accolades. There is the Purple Heart he received after being injured in World War II. Upon returning to Cleveland after the war, he was the first Black student admitted to Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Admission to Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to continue his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris followed. Madison came back to Cleveland in 1954 where he opened the first Black-owned architecture firm in the state of Ohio. Now named Robert P. Madison International, Inc., his firm would go on to design the US Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, buildings at the Tuskegee Institute and Cleveland State University, and collaborate on projects including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland Public Library, and Cleveland Browns Stadium. In recognition, Madison’s firm received a Gold Medal from the Ohio chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1997; the Cleveland Arts Prize honored him with a special citation (2000) and a Special Prize in acknowledgment of his remarkable career (2018); and in 2002, he won the AIA’s Whitney M. Young Jr. award for community service and was inducted into the Northeast Ohio Business Hall of Fame.
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THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE , Robert P. Madison
What is not obvious among these accoPREVIOUS RECI PI E N TS lades is Madison’s passion for and ardent 1996–97 Dorothy Humel Hovorka, trustee support of opera and classical music. For 1997–98 David Zauder, trumpet and more than 25 years, Bob, as he is known Orchestra personnel manager 1998–99 Ward Smith, trustee among friends and colleagues, served on 1999–2000 Christoph von Dohnányi, music The Cleveland Orchestra Board of Trustees, director emeritus 2000–01 Gary Hanson, executive director first as a resident trustee in 1997, and since 2001–02 John Mack, oboe 2017, as Honorary Trustee for Life. 2002–03 Richard J. Bogomolny, trustee 2003–04 Thomas W. Morris, executive Growing up in Cleveland, Madison had director little access to the city’s classical music insti2004–05 Alex Machaskee, trustee 2005–06 Klaus G. Roy, program editor tutions, including Severance Hall. That and annotator changed after being injured fighting against 2006–07 Amb. John D. Ong, trustee 2007–08 Gerald Hughes, chorus the German Army in northern Italy on 2008–09 Louis Lane, assistant conductor December 26, 1944. The war would end about 2009–10 Clara Taplin Rankin, trustee six months later, but it took two additional 2010–11 Robert Conrad, trustee and president of WCLV years for Madison to come back to the US. 2011–12 Richard Weiner, percussion “A few Italian soldiers whom I had met 2012–13 Milton and Tamar Maltz, trustees 2013–14 Pierre Boulez, conductor became very close friends and were very 2014–15 James D. Ireland III, trustee eager to take me to Florence where I saw 2015–16 Rosemary Klena, assistant to the executive director my very first grand opera Tosca. I was mes2016–17 Robert Vernon, viola merized,” Madison shared. “For the next 2017–18 Dennis W. LaBarre, trustee 2018–19 Franz Welser-Möst, music director two years, I went to Rome, Venice, Milan, 2019–20 The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Pisa, and Viareggio enjoying grand opera 2021–22 Joela Jones, keyboard at all levels of excellence and I became 2022–23 Jane B. Nord, philanthropist addicted to opera.” Madison brought that love of music back DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD COMMITTEE to Cleveland, where he joined the Cleveland Opera Society and eventually was recruited to Katherine O’Neill, chair Amb. John D. Ong Richard J. Bogomolny Clara Taplin Rankin join The Cleveland Orchestra family by his Robert Conrad Richard K. Smucker Meredith Smith Weil friend and fellow trustee Richard Bogomolny. Marguerite Humphrey Dennis W. LaBarre During his time on the board, Madison has been a powerful advocate for increasing access to Severance and diversity within In recognition of Robert P. Madison’s the institution and among audiences. He pertransformational dedication to the sonally extended invitations to colleagues city of Cleveland and his decades-long and friends to Severance to share the experipassion and advocacy for classical ence of an Orchestra performance and music, the Musical Arts Association is converted a number of them into regular pleased to honor him with our highest concertgoers. award for distinguished service. clevelandorchestra.com
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Selected Songs By Gustav Mahler BORN : July 7, 1860 in Kalischt, Bohemia (now Kalištì in the Czech Republic) DIED : May 18, 1911 in Vienna
▶ Frühlingsmorgen from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit (c. 1886) orchestration by Luciano Berio ▶ Ablösung im Sommer from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (c. 1886) orchestration by Luciano Berio ▶ Revelge from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1899) ▶ Urlicht from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (c. 1893) ▶ Rheinlegendchen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1892) ▶ Hans und Grete from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit (1880) orchestration by Luciano Berio ▶ DURATION: about 25 minutes
See page 18 for the full sung texts and translations.
ALTHOUGH GUSTAV MAHLER has always
been best known as a composer of expansive post-Wagnerian symphonies, the lied was also central to his creative oeuvre, both as a genre in its own right and as an impetus towards, or even a specific component of, his symphonic compositions. Indeed — probably under the influence of Schubert, whose music he loved — Mahler had begun intertwining the traditionally separate spheres of lied and instrumental music in his First Symphony (1888), which draws heavily upon his earlier song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a wayfarer). His culminating synthesis of song and 6 | 2023/2024 SEASON
symphony, written 20 years later, is Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the earth, 1908), widely regarded as Mahler’s masterpiece; the composer himself called it “the most personal thing I have yet created.” In 1892, Mahler published three volumes of Lieder und Gesänge for voice and piano. Although the chronology of their composition is not entirely clear, we do know that Mahler was at the keyboard for the 1886 premiere of “Frühlingsmorgen” (Spring morning) in Prague, with his then-current inamorata Betty Frank as the vocalist. Drawing upon the rather modest poetry of
Undoubtedly, Mahler was attracted to Richard von Volkmann (pseudonym: the Wunderhorn by its heterogeneity and Leander), Mahler captures the languid, half-awake sensuousness of a sleepyhead pithy straightforwardness, including the deeply felt oppositions of humor, tragedy, lover who is reluctant to awaken on a love, war, cruelty, and piety within its sunny spring day. The Schumannesque pages. Yet precisely the generic aspects instrumental writing evokes the gentle of text and music (marches, Austrian fresh breeze, the singing of a lark, and Ländler, and duple-time folk dances) the buzzing of bees and beetles, while enabled Mahler to treat many of these the singer addresses the slumberer in songs with the subtle detachment of smooth 6/8 lullaby phrases interspersed Romantic irony, thereby exploiting the with gentle knocking of linden branches tensions between the folkishness of the at the window. “Steh’ auf!” (get up) material and the urbane sophistication is the singer’s gently but insistently of his settings. repeated refrain, a common Mahlerian An early instance of Nature archly device that here contributes both unity regarded from the ironic perspective is and variety. Within the dreamy context “Ablösung im Sommer” (Changing of of slow harmonic motion, frequent the guard in summer), which is also the pedals, lulling pulse, and an almost earliest of the Wunderhorn songs continuously soft dynamic level, subsequently absorbed into a symphonic Mahler avoids potential ennui through movement (the scherzo of Symphony nuanced variants of melody, accompaniNo. 3). The cuckoo is usually the first ment figuration, and barring. The subtle bird to herald the arrival of spring, but orchestration by composer Luciano for unknown reasons it gradually ceases Berio (1925–2003), a lifelong Mahler to be heard in the forest after the summer devotee, delicately shades the musical solstice. The eight-line Wunderhorn atmosphere. poem accounts for this by supposing he In 1886, Mahler took up a new post has fallen dead in the meadow; now in Leipzig, where he met and fell in love who will replace him as the lead singer? with Marion von Weber, wife of composer Carl Maria von Weber’s grandson. Mistress Nightingale, who “sings and springs and is always happy when other Marion introduced him to the anthology birds are silent!” Stylized birdcalls are Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The boy’s apparent from the first bar, yet the minor magic horn, compiled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, 1805–08), mode plus the often-jabbering rhythms and unpredictable phrase lengths (brought and he wrote his first Wunderhorn lieder on chiefly through word repetition) all for Marion’s children. In total, Mahler evoke vague unease. Also cause for pause would compose 24 songs from the is the stark emphasis of “Cuckoo is dead! collection and, with one exception, Cuckoo is dead!” that actually mimics would set no other poetry until 1901. clevelandorchestra.com
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Gustav Mahler captured in Rome in 1907, while he was performing with the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia.
fallen comrades notwithstanding. The driving military onrush to the death dominates all, including the soldier’s plaintive yet fruitless pleas for relief, as well as the ironic, seemingly nonsensical refrain “tralali, tralaley, tralalera!” that punctuates all eight strophes. At length the ghostly troops rout their foes, but their victory is uncannily Pyrrhic: in the morning their skeletons stand like tombstones before the house of the initial wounded soldier’s beloved. “Urlicht” (Primal light) is familiar owing to Mahler’s incorporation of it as the miniature prelude to the vast apocalyptic finale of his Second
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the falling interval of the cuckoo’s call (albeit with exaggerated accentuation of the second note). Thus, Nature seems largely indifferent to death and the struggle for survival in this song. Cuckoo indeed is dead; instinctual life scrambles on. In 1892, Mahler began composing Wunderhorn lieder to be performed either with piano or orchestra; he considered “Revelge” (Reveille) “the greatest of his compositions of this sort.” It is also the most complex: in this horrific, almost symphonic ballad a soldier who has just been shot cannot be taken to safety, but must march incessantly onward while beating his drum, “In einem fort” — numerous
Symphony. Yet it was first composed and orchestrated independently; stylistically, it stands well apart from the rest of the Second as well as from Mahler’s other Wunderhorn songs. It is “the questioning and struggling of the soul concerning
and thereby pixieish-childlike and tender like nothing you have ever heard before. Even in the scoring it is sweet and sunny, purely butterfly colors. But despite all its simplicity and folkishness, the whole thing is extremely original, especially in its harmonization,” the composer wrote. He continued, “And yet it is the most natural thing there can be, simply what the melody demanded.” This program’s first half concludes with “Hans und Grete,” the earliest song that Mahler chose to publish. Originally titled “Maitanz im Grünen” (May dance in the meadow), it was composed in 1880 for the daughter of Mahler’s hometown postmaster, Josephine Poïsl, with whom he was desperately but illicitly in love. It is a delightfully sprightly Ländler, marked “Lustig und keck” (Joyous and cheeky), — Gustav Mahler replete with imitation yodeling, and much influenced by Schubert. The text — God and the individual divine existMahler’s own — is seemingly unencumence beyond this life,” Mahler told his bered; the folkish figure of little Hans, at friend and confidante Natalie Bauera round dance, hasn’t got a sweetheart: Lechner. “For this I need the voice and “So find yourself one!” But Gretel stands the simple expression of a child, just as from the sound of the little bell onwards, alone, watching Hans, who soon finds the sweetheart he sought: “Juchhe! Juchhe!” I imagine the soul in heaven, where ‘in To Josephine, the irony of the message chrysalis state’ it must begin anew as a would be clear; nevertheless, the music child.” Such (with greater grandeur) was also the fate of Goethe’s character Faust, is nearly as joyous as any Mahler wrote, and echoes of it are heard in the First who is redeemed by love from on high. Symphony’s scherzo (which may also “Rheinlegendchen” (Little Rhein have originated around this time). legend) is one of Mahler’s five Ländlerlike Wunderhorn settings, whereby the — Ste Stephen E. Hefling smooth triple-time pace of the Austrian Stephen E. Hefling is a professor emeritus at Case Western dance sets the tone. In contrast to his Reserve University. He is widely regarded as America’s earlier lieder, it is “much more direct, leading Mahler specialist.
The whole thing is extremely original, especially in its harmonization ... And yet it is the most natural thing there can be, simply what the melody demanded.
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Symphony No. 7 in E minor By Gustav Mahler
▶ COMPOSED: 1904–05 ▶ WORLD PREMIERE: September 19, 1908, in Prague in a performance led by the composer ▶ CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PREMIERE: Music Director Erich Leinsdorf led the Orchestra in the second and fourth movements on April 4, 1946. Louis Lane conducted the first full performance of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony on New Year’s Eve, 1970. Pierre Boulez later recorded it with The Cleveland Orchestra in 1994 for Deutsche Grammophon. ▶ ORCHESTRATION: 4 flutes (4th doubling second piccolo), piccolo, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, tenor horn, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, snare drum, tam-tam, tambourine, triangle, cymbals, glockenspiel, cowbells, tubular bells, rute), 2 harps, strings, guitar, and mandolin ▶ DURATION: about 75 minutes
GUSTAV MAHLER PREDICTED that the
world would take its time to come to terms with his music. While his symphonies are now firmly established in the repertoire, the Seventh remains something of a holdout and is less familiar on the whole than its siblings. Arguably no other Mahler score poses as many interpretive challenges: indeed, the ambivalence at the heart of this kaleidoscopic, enigmatic work has inspired contradictory solutions in performance. Mahler himself experienced unusual difficulty finding his way into this music. Working from the inside out, he began with the second and fourth movements (both of which he designated as “night music” pieces). He composed these 10 | 2023/2024 SEASON
during the summer of 1904, while simultaneously completing the finale of the Sixth Symphony. The major block came in the following summer, when he retreated at the end of the opera season to his composing hut at Maiernigg in the Austrian Alps, a refuge from the stress of Vienna. Mahler struggled with the opening movement in particular and was on the verge of giving up when he experienced an epiphany, as he recounted it, that illuminated the way forward. This occurred while he was being ferried from the train station across the lake to his retreat. “With the first stroke of the oars,” Mahler recalled several years later, “the theme (or rather, the rhythm and style)
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of the introduction to the first movement came to me.” He then sketched out the three remaining movements of the Seventh Symphony (first, third, and fifth) at a rapid pace. He completed the orchestration in 1906 and even considered reserving the premiere for his upcoming engagement in New York. However, clevelandorchestra.com
Gustav Mahler in Vienna’s opera house in 1907, one year following the completion of his Seventh Symphony.
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DARKNESS AND LIGHT
The Seventh Symphony is sometimes known by its unofficial nickname (not Mahler’s), “Song of the Night,” but the nighttime imagery that has become closely associated with this music goes beyond melancholy atmosphere or introspective brooding. Indeed, “Song of the Night” is something of a misnomer if it conjures images of night as a negative force, a darkness that requires “transcendence.” An important aspect of the Seventh that troubled critics from the start was the continually shifting character of the music as Mahler moves from one mood to another, seemingly without motivation — as if mimicking the irrational processes of the unconscious mind. In terms of style, the Seventh ranges from poetic dreamscapes to offbeat parody to raucous humor, ending with an intervention by the aforementioned finale — the work’s most controversial part — that bursts on the scene like an exuberant non sequitur. Because of Mahler’s disdain for programmatic descriptions at this point in his career, there is no easy “narrative” by which to orient the listener. He did provide this brief overview in a description to a colleague: “Three night pieces; the finale, bright day. As foundation for the whole, the first movement.” Yet the Seventh is anything but a standard “victory” symphony tracing a trajectory from Night to Day. Far from a monolithic threat, the darkness of the Seventh is shaped by Mahler’s prismatic imagination.
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Music lovers who revere Mahler as the poet laureate of existential despair tend to be baffled by the sheer fantasy that abounds in the Seventh Symphony. The “darkness” of this music is altogether distinct, for example, from the fiercely concentrated, bleak, inescapably tragic vision that dominates the Sixth. Even more, the Seventh culminates in a vast, wide-ranging finale that seems to strive for a Dionysian, no-holds-barred joy that has shocked generations of the composer’s most fervent admirers. The contrast becomes all the more remarkable if we recall that Mahler was working on both symphonies simultaneously during the summer in which he began the Seventh — an unusual circumstance, as the biographer Henry-Louis de La Grange points out, for the mature Mahler. The Seventh co-opts elements of its predecessor, only to defang them. A characteristic of its sound world is the sense of a lost past being summoned — including a partial review of Mahler’s own symphonic past. At the same time, the Seventh ranks among Mahler’s most forward-looking, innovative achievements, above all in the kaleidoscopic textures of its language. Dramatic juxtapositions are a feature of Mahlerian style, yet the Seventh seems to take this tendency to newly exaggerated extremes — another aspect of its experimental character. Homages to Romanticism and Classicism play a significant role, but these are filtered through an ironic, distancing lens more characteristic of the Modernist outlook.
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Alma Mahler suggested that her husband had wanted to evoke the magic of writers he loved from the early 19th century, such as Joseph Eichendorff (1788–1857). Thus, the middle movements, she wrote, were shot through with “visions of Eichendorff ’s poetry, rippling fountains, German Romanticism.” De La Grange pointed to similarities in atmosphere shared by Novalis’s Hymns to the Night, with their “shadows of the past … vague yearnings, and deceived hopes,” and Nietzsche’s philosopher-prophet Zarathustra (whose pivotal “Midnight Song” Mahler had clevelandorchestra.com
The use of chiaroscuro in the Rembrandt masterpiece The Night Watch may have been an inspiration for Mahler’s Symphony No. 7.
previously set to music in his Third Symphony, a work that casts a shadow of its own over the Seventh). The Nietzschean subtext, according to de La Grange, involves “a night of clairvoyance and heightened lucidity whose revelation is more essential than that of light.” The conductor Willem Mengelberg, a significant early Mahler champion, adduced as a visual inspiration Rembrandt’s 1642 painting The Night Watch (referring to the second movement and the first | 13
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of the Seventh’s two “night music” sections), though a colleague clarified the connection by suggesting that Mahler responded to Rembrandt’s technique of shading and chiaroscuro more than his subject matter. Nature also forms an important element of Mahler’s nightscapes. In general, as de La Grange observes, the Seventh “seems to welcome intrusions with a strange passivity, to mirror the strange diversity of the twentieth-century man’s experience, a diversity which has become impossible to synthesize … in a disillusioned present which knows … that ambiguities can never be solved.” SYMMETRY AND MUSICAL SHADOWS
For all its ambiguity, the Seventh’s five movements are held together by a powerfully unifying symmetry. The first and fifth movements counterbalance each other in proportion; the two “night music” movements, together with the central Scherzo they flank, similarly form an internal continuity roughly equal to each of the outer movements. What results is a neatly balanced arch shape (A–B–C–B–A), such that the odd-numbered movements modify more familiar, conventional forms (sonata, scherzo with trio, rondo finale), while the second and fourth movements are closer to fantasias that reinterpret the romantic “character” pieces otherwise known, respectively, as nocturne and serenade. A shadowy mystique permeates the symphony’s opening moments — the passage that came to Mahler so suddenly 14 | 2023/2024 SEASON
during his boat ride. Over a stuttering, funereal accompaniment, its harmony unstable, Mahler superimposes the cry of a tenor horn — normally associated with brass bands, the unusual sonority of this instrument is our first indication of the Seventh’s distinctive and original orchestration. The first theme features a dotted, descending, three-note pattern as well as a long-short-short rhythm; both of these recur as unifying devices throughout the symphony. With a fierce charge, the introduction accelerates into a fiery Allegro, its music transformed into a driving march that bears a close family resemblance to the opening theme of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. The yearningly lyrical second theme, given by the strings, serves as the critical center of the movement’s arc during the development, when it emerges like a full moon from obscuring clouds and reaches a swooning, visionary climax. Mahler then plummets headlong into the introductory music again, beginning a highly inventive and varied process of recapitulation. The first “night music” movement represents still another kind of march, one that slowly comes into focus amid echoes, fluttering sounds, and night calls before settling into a major-minor pattern that is Mahler’s musical equivalent of chiaroscuro. The effect is enticingly ambiguous, while, as in Bartók’s night music, bird calls and sensuous new colors (including cowbells) emerge under cover of darkness.
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Portrait of Gustav Mahler by Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1907), the year between when Mahler completed Symphony No. 7 and premiered it.
The Schubert-like charm of the contrasting melody is one of the nostalgic evocations of the past that figure in these middle movements. “Shadowy” (schattenhaft) is Mahler’s marking for the central Scherzo, with its misplaced, woozy accents: a spectral waltz that both mocks and seems to outdo romantic grotesquerie. The oboe’s cheerful tune in the trio comes back in a funhouse distortion when played by trombones and tuba, while echoes of the symphony’s opening theme heighten the symmetry by recurring here at the center. The painterly details of Mahler’s scoring abound in chamber effects here and in the ensuing “night music,” an Andante clevelandorchestra.com
amoroso that serves as a gentle parody of the lover’s serenade. This is also the first movement cast from the start in a major key (F major). Mahler adds amorous plucking on mandolin and guitar that evoke an ironic nostalgia. The fifth-movement finale has always been the Seventh’s interpretive stumbling block. Pounding timpani set in motion the brassy fanfare of the multipart rondo theme, one segment of which resembles a drunken imitation of the pompously marching swagger of Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Indeed, the C-major brightness of this music — Mahler pointedly designates it Allegro ordinario — intrudes so unexpectedly after all that has preceded that it seems to thumb its nose at the notion of triumph over darkness, rather as Shostakovich (perhaps) intended to do in his Fifth Symphony several decades later. The alternating tempos and elaborate variations on the hyperactive rondo music insist on an attitude of insolently clamorous joy. Mahler noted in connection with the finale that “everything has its price” (Was kostet die Welt!). Amid all the affirmation, one last ambiguous touch — an unexpected harmony — threatens to trip up everything before the unadulterated C major brings the Seventh to its close. — Thomas May Thomas May is the author of Decoding Wagner and The John Adams Reader. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Gramophone, and Strings magazine. Since 2009, he has served as the English writer and program editor for the Lucerne Festival.
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Selected Songs English translations by Stephen E. Hefling
Frühlingsmorgen (Spring morning) By Richard Leander
Es klopft an das Fenster der Lindenbaum mit Zweigen, blüthenbehangen: Steh’ auf, steh’ auf! Was liegst du im Traum? Die Sonn’ ist aufgegangen! Steh’ auf, steh’ auf! Die Lerche ist wach, die Büsche weh’n! Die Bienen summen und Käfer! Steh’ auf, steh’ auf! Und dein munteres Lieb hab’ ich auch schon geseh’n. Steh’ auf, Langschläfer! Langschläfer, steh’ auf! Steh’ auf! Steh’ auf!
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The linden tree knocks at the window with branches bedecked with blossoms: Get up, get up! Why lie you there dreaming? The sun is up! Get up, get up! The lark is awake, the bushes waft! The bees and beetles buzz! Get up, get up! And your cheerful lover I’ve also seen. Get up, late sleeper! Late sleeper, get up! Get up! Get up!
Ablösung im Sommer (Changing of the guard in summer) Anonymous
Kuckuk hat sich zu Tode gefallen, Tode gefallen an einer grünen Weiden! Weiden! Weiden! Kukuk ist todt! Kukuk ist todt! hat sich zu Tod’ gefallen!
Cuckoo has fallen dead, fallen dead in a green Meadow! Meadow! Meadow! Cuckoo is dead! Cuckoo is dead! He has fallen dead!
Wer soll uns denn den Sommer lang die Zeit und Weil vertreiben? Kukuk! Kukuk! Wer soll uns denn den Sommer lang die Zeit und Weil vertreiben? Kukuk! Kukuk!
Who’ll help us all the summer long to while away the time? Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Who’ll help us all the summer long to while away the time? Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Ei! das soll thun Frau Nachtigall! Die sitzt auf grünem Zweige! Die kleine, feine Nachtigall, die liebe, süße Nachtigall! Sie singt und springt, ist all’zeit froh, Wenn andre Voegel schweigen!
Ay, ’t should be Mistress Nightingale! She sits on the green branch! The neat, petite little nightingale, the lovely sweet little nightingale! She sings and springs, is always glad when other birds are still!
Wir warten auf Frau Nachtigall, die wohnt im grünen Hage, und wenn der Kukuk zu Ende ist, dann fängt sie an zu schlagen!
We wait for Mistress Nightingale, who lives in the green grove, and when the cuckoo’s day is done, then she’ll begin her singing!
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Revelge (Reveille) Anonymous
Des Morgens zwischen drei’n und vieren, da müssen wir Soldaten marschieren das Gäßlein auf und ab, tralali, tralaley, tralalera, mein Schätzel sieht herab!
Mornings between three and four, then we soldiers must march up and down the narrow street, tralali, tralaley, tralalera, my sweetheart looks upon us!
Ach, Bruder, jetzt bin ich geschossen, die Kugel hat mich schwere, schwer getroffen, trag’ mich in mein Quartier! Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, es ist nicht weit von hier!
Ah, brother, just now I’ve been shot, the bullet has hurt me very badly, carry me to my billet! Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, it is not far from here!
Ach, Bruder, ach Bruder, ich kann dich nicht tragen, die Feinde haben uns geschlagen! Helf’ dir der liebe Gott, helf’ dir der liebe Gott! Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, ich muß, ich muß marschieren bis ins Tod!
Ah, brother, ah brother, I cannot carry you, the enemy have beaten us! May God help you, may God help you! Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, I must, I must march on to the death!
Ach, Brüder, ach, Brüder, ihr geht ja mir vorüber, als wär’s mit mir vorbei, als wär’s mit mir vorbei! Tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, tralalera, ihr tretet mir zu nah, ihr tretet mir zu nah!
Ah brothers, ah brothers, you pass me by, as though it’s all over for me, as though it’s all over for me! Tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, tralalera, you tread too close to me, you tread too close to me!
Ich muß wohl meine Trommel rühren, ich muß meine Trommel wohl rühren, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, sonst werd’ ich mich verlieren, tralali, tralaley, tralala.
I’ve got to beat my drum, I must beat my drum well, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, otherwise I’ll lose myself, tralali, tralaley, tralala.
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Die Brüder, dick gesät, die Brüder, dick gesät, sie liegen wie gemäht.
The brothers, thick on the ground, thick on the ground, they lie as though mown down.
Er schlägt die Trommel auf und nieder, er wecket seine stillen Brüder, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, sie schlagen und się schlagen ihren Feind, Feind, Feind, tralali, tralaley, tralalerallala, ein Schrecken schlägt den Feind, ein Schrecken schlägt den Feind!
He beats the drum up and down, he wakes up his silent brothers, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, they batter and they smite their foes, foes, foes, tralali, tralaley, tralalerallala, dread terror strikes the foe, dread terror strikes the foe!
Er schlägt die Trommel auf und nieder, da sind sie vor dem Nachtquartier schon wieder, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley. Ins Gäßlein hell hinaus, hell hinaus, sie zieh’n vor Schätzleins Haus, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, tralalera, sie zieh’n vor Schätzeleins Haus, tralali!
He beats the drum up and down, they’ve reached the barracks once again, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley. Into the narrow street quite clearly they draw up before his sweetheart’s house, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, tralalera, they draw up before his sweetheart’s house, tralali!
Des Morgens stehen da die Gebeine in Reih’ und Glied, sie stehen wie Leichensteine in Reih’, in Reih’ und Glied. Die Trommel steht voran, die Trommel steht voran, daß sie ihn sehen kann, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, tralalera, daß sie ihn sehen kann!
In the morning the bones stand there in rank and file, they stand like gravestones in rank, in rank and file. The drum stands in front, the drum stands in front, so that it can see him, tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, tralalera, so that it can see him!
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Urlicht (Primal light) Anonymous
O Röschen rot! Der Mensch liegt in größter Not! Der Mensch liegt in größter Pein! Je lieber möchte ich im Himmel sein! Da kam ich auf einen breiten Weg; da kam ein Engelein und wollt’ mich abweisen. Ach nein! Ich ließ mich nicht abweisen! Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott! Der liebe Gott wird mir ein Lichtchen geben Wird leuchten mir bis in das ewig selig Leben!
O little red rose! Man lies in greatest need! Man lies in greatest pain! I would much rather be in heaven! Then I came upon a broad path; then came a little angel who wanted to send me away. Ah no! I shall not let myself be turned away! I am of God and will return to God! The dear Lord will give me a little light He will light my way into eternal blessed life!
Rheinlegendchen (Little Rhine legend) Anonymous
Bald gras’ ich am Neckar, bald gras’ ich am Rhein; bald hab’ ich ein Schätzel, bald bin ich allein!
Now I mow by the Neckar, now by the Rhine; now I’ve a sweetheart, now I’m alone!
Was hilft mir das Grasen, wenn d’Sichel nicht schneidt! Was hilft mir ein Schätzel, wenn’s bei mir nicht bleibt!
What good is mowing if the sickle doesn’t cut! What good’s a sweetheart if she doesn’t stay with me!
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So soll ich denn grasen am Neckar, am Rhein, so werf’ ich mein goldenes Ringlein hinein.
So if I should mow by the Neckar or Rhine, I’d then throw my little gold ring in the flow.
Es fließet im Neckar und fließet im Rhein, soll schwimmen hinunter ins Meer tief hinein.
It’ll float in the Neckar and float in the Rhine and swim right down under deep into the sea.
Und schwimmt es, das Ringlein, so frißt es ein Fisch! Das Fischlein soll kommen auf’s Königs sein Tisch!
And as it swims, the little ring, a fish will gobble it! The small fish will come to the table of the king!
Der König tät fragen: wem’s Ringlein sollt’ sein? Da tät mein Schatz sagen: Das Ringlein g’hört mein.
The king would ask whose the ringlet might be? Then would my sweetheart say: It belongs to me!
Mein Schätzlein tät springen Berg auf und Berg ein, tät mir wiedrum bringen das Goldringlein mein!
My little sweetheart would spring downhill and back up, would once again bring me my little gold ring!
Kannst grasen am Neckar, kannst grasen am Rhein! Wirf du mir nur immer dein Ringlein hinein!
You can mow by the Neckar, can mow by the Rhine! Just toss to me always your ringlet so fine!
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Hans und Grete By Gustav Mahler
Ringel, ringel Reih’n! Wer fröhlich ist, der schlinge sich ein! Wer Sorgen hat, der lass’n sie daheim! Wer ein liebes Liebchen küsst, wie glücklich der ist! Ei, Hänschen, du hast ja kein’s! So suche dir ein’s! Ein liebes Liebchen, das ist was Fein’s! Juche! Juche!
Ring around a row! Whoever is happy, let them jump in! Whoever has cares, leave them at home! Whoever kisses a beloved little sweetheart, how lucky he is! Hey, Hänsl, you have none! So find yourself one! A beloved little sweetheart, that’s what’s just fine! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Ringel, ringel Reih’n! Ei, Gretchen, was stehst denn so allein? Guckst doch hinüber zum Hänselein!? Und ist doch der Mai so grün!? Und die Lüfte, sie zieh’n! Ei, seht doch den dummen Hans! Wie er rennet zum Tanz! Er suchte ein Liebchen, Juche! Er fand’s! Juche! Juche! Juche! Juche! Ringel, ringel Reih’n! Ringel Reih’n! Ringel Reih’n! Reih’n!
Ring around a row! Hey Gretchen, why stand there all alone? But aren’t you peering over at Hänsel!? And isn’t the month of May so green!? And the breezes, how they blow! Hey, look there at stupid Hans! How he goes running to the dance! He was looking for a sweetheart, Hurrah! He found her! Hooray, hooray! Hurrah! Hurrah! Ring around a row! Around a row! Around a row! Row!
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at home in Vienna, as well as on tours. Welser-Möst is also a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival where he has led a series of acclaimed opera productions, including Rusalka, Der Rosenkavalier, Fidelio, Die Liebe der Danae, Aribert Reimann’s opera Lear, and Richard Strauss’s Salome. In 2020, he conducted Strauss’s Elektra on the 100th anniversary of its premiere. He has since returned to Salzburg to conduct additional performances of Elektra in 2021 and Giacomo Puccini’s Il trittico in 2022. In 2019, Welser-Möst was awarded the Gold Medal in the Arts by the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts. Other honors include The Cleveland Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award, two Cleveland Arts Prize citations, the Vienna Philharmonic’s “Ring of Honor,” recognition from the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, honorary membership in the Vienna Singverein, appointment as an Academician of the European Academy of Yuste, and the Kilenyi Medal from the Bruckner Society of America. | 27
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REVERED BRITISH BARITONE Simon
Keenlyside was born in London. He appears at the world’s most celebrated opera houses, where his roles have included Prospero in The Tempest, Père Germont in La traviata, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title roles in Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin, Wozzeck, Billy Budd, and Hamlet. Recent highlights include Rigoletto and Macbeth at Wiener Staatsoper, Peter Grimes at Opéra national de Paris, and Falstaff at the Salzburg Festival. His 2023–24 season highlights include Le nozze di Figaro at Deutsche Staatsoper, Pelléas et Mélisande at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, and the world premiere of Bolton’s Island of Dreams at Grange 28 | 2023/2024 SEASON
Park Opera. In concert, Keenlyside performs Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn at the San Francisco Symphony opening night gala, and tours Austria and Israel with The Cleveland Orchestra. A renowned recitalist, Keenlyside appears regularly at such major international recital venues as Wigmore Hall, Palau de les Arts Valencia, La Monnaie, Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein, Opernhaus Zürich, and many more. Keenlyside has performed in concert with leading orchestras including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Czech, Vienna, and Berlin philharmonics. Keenlyside’s extensive discography includes a disc of Schumann lieder with Graham Johnson and four recital discs with Malcolm Martineau, including Songs of War, which won the Solo Vocal Award at the 2012 Gramophone Awards. He has also recorded Britten’s War Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Adès’s The Tempest, which won the Best Opera Recording (Grammy Awards 2013) and Music DVD Recording of the Year (Echo Klassik Awards 2014). Keenlyside was made a CBE in 2003 and received a knighthood at the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2018. In 2017, he was awarded the title of Austrian Kammersänger at the Vienna State Opera. He won the 2006 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera and in 2007 he was given the ECHO Klassik award for Male Singer of the Year.
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TH E CLEV EL A N D ORCHESTR A
Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director KELVIN SMITH FAMILY CHAIR FIRST VIOLINS
Sonja Braaten Molloy
Ralph Curry
ENGLISH HORN
David Radzynski
Carolyn Gadiel Warner
CONCERTMASTER
Elayna Duitman
Brian Thornton William P. Blair III Chair
Ioana Missits
David Alan Harrell
Robert Walters Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair
Jeffrey Zehngut
Martha Baldwin
Sae Shiragami
Dane Johansen
Kathleen Collins
Paul Kushious
Beth Woodside
BASSES
Emma Shook Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair
Maximilian Dimoff* Clarence T. Reinberger Chair
Blossom-Lee Chair
Jung-Min Amy Lee ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair
Jessica Lee ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair
Yun-Ting Lee
Stephen Tavani
Jiah Chung Chapdelaine
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Liyuan Xie
Dr. Ronald H. Krasney Chair
Wei-Fang Gu Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair Kim Gomez Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair Chul-In Park Harriet T. and David L. Simon Chair Miho Hashizume Theodore Rautenberg Chair Jeanne Preucil Rose Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair Alicia Koelz Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair
VIOLAS Wesley Collins* Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair
Derek Zadinsky2 Charles Paul1 Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair Mark Atherton Thomas Sperl Henry Peyrebrune Charles Barr Memorial Chair
CLARINETS Afendi Yusuf* Robert Marcellus Chair Robert Woolfrey Victoire G. and Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Chair Daniel McKelway2 Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair Amy Zoloto
E-FLAT CLARINET Daniel McKelway Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair
Lynne Ramsey1 Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair
Charles Carleton
BASS CLARINET
Scott Dixon
Amy Zoloto Myrna and James Spira Chair
Stanley Konopka2
HARP
Mark Jackobs Jean Wall Bennett Chair
Trina Struble* Alice Chalifoux Chair
Lisa Boyko Richard and Nancy Sneed Chair Richard Waugh Lembi Veskimets The Morgan Sisters Chair
BASSOONS John Clouser* Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair
FLUTES
Gareth Thomas
Joshua Smith* Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Chair
Barrick Stees2 Sandra L. Haslinger Chair
Saeran St. Christopher
Jonathan Sherwin
Jessica Sindell Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair
CONTRABASSOON
Mary Kay Fink
HORNS
William Bender
PICCOLO
Gareth Zehngut
Nathaniel Silberschlag* George Szell Memorial Chair
CELLOS
Mary Kay Fink Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair
Michael Mayhew§ Knight Foundation Chair
Mark Kosower* Louis D. Beaumont Chair
OBOES
Richard Weiss1 The GAR Foundation Chair
Frank Rosenwein* Edith S. Taplin Chair
Hans Clebsch
Genevieve Smelser
SECOND VIOLINS
Charles Bernard2 Helen Weil Ross Chair
Meghan Guegold Hege
Stephen Rose* Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair
Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair
Corbin Stair Sharon and Yoash Wiener Chair
Eli Matthews1 Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair
Tanya Ell Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber Chair
Yu Yuan Patty and John Collinson Chair Isabel Trautwein Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair Katherine Bormann Analisé Denise Kukelhan Gladys B. Goetz Chair Zhan Shu Youngji Kim
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Eliesha Nelson Anthony and Diane Wynshaw-Boris Chair Joanna Patterson Zakany
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Jeffrey Rathbun2 Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair Robert Walters
Jonathan Sherwin
Jesse McCormick Robert B. Benyo Chair Richard King
TRUMPETS Michael Sachs* Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair
Richard Stout
LIBRARIANS
CONDUCTORS
Michael Ferraguto Joe and Marlene Toot Chair
Christoph von Dohnányi
Donald Miller
Daniel Reith
Jack Sutte
TUBA
Lyle Steelman2 James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair
Yasuhito Sugiyama* Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair
ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED
Michael Miller
TIMPANI
Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair
CORNETS Michael Sachs* Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair Michael Miller
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EUPHONIUM & BASS TRUMPET
vacant
PERCUSSION Marc Damoulakis* Margaret Allen Ireland Chair Thomas Sherwood
TROMBONES
Tanner Tanyeri
Brian Wendel* Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair
KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
Richard Stout Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair Shachar Israel2
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Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair
MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Virginia M. Linsdseth, PhD, Chair
Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair
Lisa Wong DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES
Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair
Paul and Lucille Jones Chair James and Donna Reid Chair Sunshine Chair Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Chair Rudolf Serkin Chair
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CALE N DAR Pre-concert lectures are held in Reinberger Chamber Hall one hour prior to the performance.
FALL OCT 12 & 13 MAHLER’S SONG OF THE NIGHT Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Simon Keenlyside, baritone MAHLER Selected Songs MAHLER Symphony No. 7 Pre-concert lecture by James O’Leary
OCT 15 SPECIAL EVENT
Renée Fleming & Friends Renée Fleming, soprano Emerson String Quartet Simone Dinnerstein, piano Merle Dandridge, narrator
NOV 9 – 11 HANNIGAN CONDUCTS STRAUSS Barbara Hannigan, conductor Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano HAYDN Symphony No. 44, “Trauersinfonie” VIVIER Lonely Child * LIGETI Lontano * R . STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration Pre-concert lecture by Rabbi Roger Klein
NOV 19 RECITAL
Schumann & Ravel Marc-André Hamelin, piano IVES Piano Sonata No. 2 R . SCHUMANN Forest Scenes RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit
NOV 24 – 26 TCHAIKOVSKY’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
PHILIP GLASS Etude No. 6 BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 14 PREVIN Penelope
Pietari Inkinen, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin
OCT 20
DVOŘÁK Othello Overture TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
SPECIAL EVENT
Eric Whitacre Conducts The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Eric Whitacre, conductor Lisa Wong, conductor Mingyao Zhao, cello Daniel Overly, piano REENA ESMAIL When the Violin ERIC WHITACRE The Sacred Veil
Pre-concert lecture by James Wilding
NOV 30 – DEC 2 MAHLER’S FOURTH SYMPHONY Daniel Harding, conductor Lauren Snouffer, soprano BETSY JOLAS Ces belles années… MAHLER Symphony No. 4
JAN 11 – 13 THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN Franz Welser-Möst, conductor KŘENEK Kleine Symphonie MAHLER/KŘENEK Adagio from Symphony No. 10 BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 (arr. for string orchestra) BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin Pre-concert lecture by Kevin McBrien
JAN 17 & 18 MODERN CLASSICIST: WELSER-MÖST CONDUCTS PROKOFIEV 2 & 5 Franz Welser-Möst, conductor PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 2 WEBERN Symphony PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 Pre-concert lecture by Eric Charnofsky
FEB 1 RECITAL
Beethoven for Three Leonidas Kavakos, violin Yo-Yo Ma, cello Emanuel Ax, piano BEETHOVEN Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost” BEETHOVEN/WOSNER Symphony No. 1 BEETHOVEN Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 2
FEB 9 – 11 BEETHOVEN’S FATEFUL FIFTH Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Pre-concert lecture by Michael Strasser
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 6 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
DEC 7 & 9 TCHAIKOVSKY’S ROMEO & JULIET
Pre-concert lecture by James O’Leary
Semyon Bychkov, conductor Katia Labèque, piano Marielle Labèque, piano JULIAN ANDERSON Symphony No. 2, “Prague Panoramas” MARTINŮ Concerto for Two Pianos TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Pre-concert lecture by Caroline Oltmanns
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WINTER
FEB 15 & 17 RAVEL’S MOTHER GOOSE George Benjamin, conductor Tim Mead, countertenor Women of The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus DIETER AMMANN glut GEORGE BENJAMIN Dream of the Song KNUSSEN The Way to Castle Yonder RAVEL Ma mère l’Oye (complete ballet) Pre-concert lecture by James Wilding
FEB 22 – 25 BEETHOVEN’S PASTORAL Philippe Herreweghe, conductor Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello BEETHOVEN Overture to Egmont HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 1 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” Pre-concert lecture by David Rothenberg
FEB 29 – MAR 2 KANNEH-MASON PLAYS SCHUMANN Susanna Mälkki, conductor Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano
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J.S. BACH/WEBERN Ricercare from Musical Offering * C. SCHUMANN Piano Concerto HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler Symphony
Pre-concert lecture by Eric Charnofsky
MAR 7 – 9 BRAHMS’S FOURTH SYMPHONY Fabio Luisi, conductor Mary Kay Fink, piccolo
WEBER Overture to Oberon ODED ZEHAVI Aurora BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Pre-concert lecture by Francesca Brittan
MAR 10
RECITAL
Chopin & Schubert Yefim Bronfman, piano SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No. 14 R . SCHUMANN Carnival Scenes from Vienna ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Sisar CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 3
MAR 14, 16 & 17 LEVIT PLAYS MOZART Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Igor Levit, piano MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, “Romantic” Pre-concert lecture by Cicilia Yudha
SPRING MAR 21 – 23 SIBELIUS’S SECOND SYMPHONY Dalia Stasevska, conductor Josefina Maldonado, mezzo-soprano
APR 26 – 28 RACHMANINOFF’S SECOND PIANO CONCERTO Lahav Shani, conductor Beatrice Rana, piano
RAUTAVAARA Cantus Arcticus PERRY Stabat Mater SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
UNSUK CHIN subito con forza RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra
Pre-concert lecture by Kevin McBrien
Pre-concert lecture by James O’Leary
APR 4 & 6 CITY NOIR
MAY 2 – 4 LANG LANG PLAYS SAINT-SAËNS
John Adams, conductor James McVinnie, organ Timothy McAllister, saxophone GABRIELLA SMITH Breathing Forests DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun JOHN ADAMS City Noir Pre-concert lecture by Eric Charnofsky
APR 11 – 13 ELGAR’S CELLO CONCERTO Klaus Mäkelä, conductor Sol Gabetta, cello Thomas Hampson, baritone * The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus * JIMMY LÓPEZ BELLIDO Perú negro ELGAR Cello Concerto WALTON Belshazzar’s Feast * Pre-concert lecture by James Wilding
APR 14 RECITAL
Schumann & Brahms Evgeny Kissin, piano Matthias Goerne, baritone R . SCHUMANN Dichterliebe BRAHMS Four Ballades, Op. 10 BRAHMS Selected Songs
APR 18 – 20 YUJA WANG PLAYS RAVEL & STRAVINSKY
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Lang Lang, piano * SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 2 * BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique Pre-concert lecture by Caroline Oltmanns
MAY 16, 18, 24 & 26 MOZART’S MAGIC FLUTE Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Nikolaus Habjan, director Julian Prégardien, tenor Ludwig Mittelhammer, baritone Christina Landshamer, soprano The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus MOZART The Magic Flute Staged production sung in German with projected supertitles
MAY 23 & 25 MOZART’S GRAN PARTITA Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Leila Josefowicz, violin Trina Struble, harp WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde JÜRI REINVERE Concerto for Violin and Harp MOZART Serenade No. 10, “Gran Partita” Pre-concert lecture by Michael Strasser
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor Yuja Wang, piano RAVEL Concerto for the Left Hand STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring Pre-concert lecture by Caroline Oltmanns
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