We've teamed up with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to bring you this guide to the first half of their 2012-13 season. Use this guide to discover recordings in our collection featuring the work or performer, or to learn more about the composer. Select the conductor's or performer's name for recordings in our collection on which they appear. Select the composer's name to learn about their life and work. Select the title of a work to find recordings of that work in our collection on CD and LP, as well as musical scores.
Mahler 3: Force of Nature
Thursday, October 4 at 7:35 p.m., Music Hall | Saturday, October 6 at 8:05 p.m., Music Hall
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conductor · Stephanie Blythe, mezzo soprano · Cincinnati Boy Choir, Christopher Eanes, Director · Women of the May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, Director
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) · Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (1906 revision)
GLENNIE'S RHYTHM & FIRE
Friday, November 2 at 8:00 p.m., Music Hall | Saturday, November 3 at 8:00 p.m., Music Hall
Peter Oundjian conductor · Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) · Alborada del gracioso
Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) · Percussion Concerto
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) · Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) · Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
Welcome Louis!
Friday, November 9 at 11:00 a.m., Music Hall | Saturday, November 10 at 8:00 p.m., Music Hall
Louis Langrée conductor · Cèdric Tiberghien, piano
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1922) · Les offrandes oublièes
Camille Saint Saëns (1835-1921) · Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
César Franck (1822-1890) · Symphony in D minor
Beethoven 9
Thursday, November 15 at 7:35 p.m., Music Hall | Saturday, November 17 at 8:05 p.m., Music Hall | Sunday, November 18 at 2:05 p.m., Music Hall
Louis Langrée conductor · Twyla Robinson, soprano · Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano · Morris Robinson, narrator, bass Dmitri Pittas, tenor May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, Director
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) · A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) · Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, Choral
Beauty, Bliss & Branford
Friday, November 30 at 8:00 p.m., Music Hall | Saturday, December 1 at 8:00 p.m., Music Hall
Andrey Boreyko conductor · Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) · Lieutenant Kije Suite, Op. 60
Jacob ter Veldhuis (b. 1951) · Tallahatchie Concerto for Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra (This work has yet to be commercially released on CD. See here for recordings of other works by Jacob ter Veldhuis, a.k.a. Jacob TV)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) · Night Flight, Op. 19a (This work is not in our collection. See here for many other recordings of works by Samuel Barber)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) · Symphony No. 4, Op. 54, The Poem of Ecstasy
Handel's Messiah
Sunday, December 16 at 2:00 p.m., Music Hall
Jane Glover conductor · May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, Director
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) · Messiah (HWV 56)
More info
For more information, see the CSO's 2012-13 Season Listing.