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Cleveland Orchestra announces its 2015-2016 Season

by Daniel Hathaway

Cleveland, March 1, 2015 — Under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst, The will begin its 98th season on September 24 with the first of three of ’s large tone poems, . Also sprach Zarathrustra and will follow later in the year.

Welser-Möst is also scheduled to conduct performances of such larger works as Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and The Miraculous Mandarin, and excerpts from Richard ’s Götterdämmerung and .

Distinguished guest conductors returning to the Severance Hall podium will include music director laureate Christoph von Dohnányi, , Lionel Bringuier, Alan Gilbert, Jane Glover, Gianandrea Noseda, Vladimir Jurowski and Antonio Pappano will. Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Antoni Wit will lead the orchestra for the first time.

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Chamber Chorus and Children’s Chorus will join the Orchestra for Mahler’s third symphony, Verdi’s Te Deum and Stabat Mater (from Four Sacred Pieces), Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin, and Dvořák’s’s Stabat Mater.

World premieres highlighting members of the Orchestra as soloists will include Richard Sortomme’s Concerto for Two Violas and Bernard Rands’ English horn concerto. Sortomme’s work is a commission from the Orchestra and will feature Robert Vernon and Lynne Ramsey as soloists. Vernon has announced plans to retire in the summer of 2016 after serving forty years as principal viola. The Rands piece is a commission from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music for the Orchestra’s English hornist, Robert Walters, who teaches at the school.

A pair of concerts largely devoted to the music of will feature pianist Joela Jones in his Couleurs de la cite celeste. Principal flute Joshua Smith will collaborate with guest harpist Yolanda Kondonassis in Mozart’s flute and harp concerto.

The season will feature a number of returning guest soloists: violinists Leila Josefowicz, and Frank Peter Zimmerman, pianists Yefim Bronfman, Rudolf Buchbinder, Kiril Gerstein, Stephen Hough, Maria João Pires and Mitsuko Uchida, cellist Truls Mørk, sopranos , Luba Orgonášová, and Yulia Van Doren, mezzo-sopranos Jennifer Johnson Cano and Kelley O’Connor, tenors Norbert Ernst and John Tessier, bass-baritone Eric Owens, and bass John Relyea.

Artists appearing with the Orchestra for the first time include pianist Jan Lisiecki, soprano Katarina Dalayman, mezzo-sopranos Jennifer Johnston and Marie-Nicole Lemieux, and bass Mikhail Petrenko. Pianist Julien Brocal will make his Severance Hall debut in an all-Beethoven recital with Maria João Pires.

The next Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow will be Anthony Cheung, whose Lyra will be performed during the season. Other works from the 21st century to be featured during 2015-2016 are from the pens of , Thomas Adès, Marc-André Dalbavie, György Kurtág and .

Soprano Renée Fleming will be the featured artist during a benefit concert on October 3.

The complete schedule follows.

Thursday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 at 8 p.m. Saturday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

MOZART Symphony No. 41 (“Jupiter”) STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony

Thursday, OCTOBER 1, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, OCTOBER 2, 2015 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Women of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus

MAHLER Symphony No. 3

Saturday, OCTOBER 3, 2015 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Renée Fleming, soprano

A gala evening with Renée Flemiing. Program to be announced.

Thursday, OCTOBER 8, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Joela Jones, piano

MESSIAEN L’Ascension: 4 méditations symphoniques MESSIAEN Couleurs de la cité céleste (Colors of the Celestial City) STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra

Friday, OCTOBER 9, 2015 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Joela Jones, piano Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

MESSIAEN Chronochromie MESSIAEN Couleurs de la cité céleste (Colors of the Celestial City) VERDI Stabat Mater & Te Deum (from Four Sacred Pieces)

Saturday, OCTOBER 10, 2015 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Joela Jones, piano Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra MESSIAEN Couleurs de la cité céleste (Colors of the Celestial City VERDI Stabat Mater & Te Deum (from Four Sacred Pieces)

Friday, NOVEMBER 6, 2015 at 11 a.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Leonidas Kavakos, violin

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Saturday, NOVEMBER 7, 2015 at 8 p.m. Sunday, NOVEMBER 8, 2015 at 3 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Leonidas Kavakos, violin

PETRASSI Partita SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Thursday, NOVEMBER 19, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, NOVEMBER 20, 2015 at 8 p.m. Saturday, NOVEMBER 21, 2015 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Robert Vernon, viola Lynne Ramsey, viola

SMETANA Overture to The Bartered Bride SORTOMME Concerto for Two Violas and Orchestra on Themes from Smetana’s String Quartet No.1, “From My Life” (World premiere, Cleveland Orchestra Commission) SCHUBERT Symphony in C major (“The Great”)

Friday, NOVEMBER 27, 2015 at 8 p.m. Saturday, NOVEMBER 28, 2015 at 8 p.m. Sunday, NOVEMBER 29, 2015 at 3 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Lionel Bringuier, conductor Robert Walters, English horn

DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun RANDS Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra (World premiere – Oberlin Conservatory of Music Commission) BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

Thursday, DECEMBER 3, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, DECEMBER 4, 2015 at 8 p.m. Saturday, DECEMBER 5, 2015 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Robert Porco, conductor Yulia Van Doren, soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano John Tessier, tenor John Relyea, bass Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Chorus

HANDEL Messiah

Thursday, JANUARY 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, JANUARY 9, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 15 (for string orchestra) BEETHOVEN No. 3 BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy

Friday, JANUARY 8, 2016 at 11 a.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 15 (for string orchestra) BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3

Thursday, JANUARY 14, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, JANUARY 15, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Barbara Hannigan, soprano

ABRAHAMSEN let me tell you [U.S. premiere] SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 4

Thursday, FEBRUARY 4, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, FEBRUARY 6, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

DALBAVIE La Source d’un Regard RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major DEBUSSY Images

Friday, FEBRUARY 5, 2016 at 7 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major DEBUSSY Images

Thursday, FEBRUARY 11, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, FEBRUARY 12, 2016 at 8 p.m. Saturday, FEBRUARY 13, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor William Preucil, concertmaster and leader

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17 MOZART Divertimento in D major MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25

Thursday, FEBRUARY 18, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, FEBRUARY 19, 2016 at 8 p.m. Saturday, FEBRUARY 20, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

BERWALD Symphony No. 3 (“Sinfonie singulière”) DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7

Thursday, MARCH 3, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, MARCH 5, 2016 at 8 p.m. Sunday, MARCH 6, 2016 at 3 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Alan Gilbert, conductor Stephen Hough, piano

SCHUMANN Overture to Manfred DVOŘÁK Piano Concerto NIELSEN Symphony No. 4 (“The Inextinguishable”)

Thursday, MARCH 10, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Maria João Pires, piano Julien Brocal, piano

Program to include: BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 31 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 32

Thursday, MARCH 24, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, MARCH 26, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Truls Mørk, cello

KURTÁG Grabstein für Stephan SCHUMANN Cello Concerto BRUCKNER Symphony No. 6

Thursday, MARCH 31, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, APRIL 2, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Leila Josefowicz, violin

CHEUNG Lyra ADÈS Concentric Paths (for violin and orchestra) WAGNER Excerpts from Götterdämmerung

Friday, APRIL 1, 2016 at 11 a.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Leila Josefowicz, violin

ADÈS Concentric Paths (for violin and orchestra) WAGNER Excerpts from Götterdämmerung

Thursday, APRIL 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, APRIL 8, 2016 at 8 p.m. Saturday, APRIL 9, 2016 at 8 p.m. Sunday, APRIL 10, 2016 at 5 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Mikhail Petrenko, bass Katarina Dalayman, sopranos Members of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin BARTÓK Bluebeard’s Castle

Thursday, APRIL 14, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, APRIL 16, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Jane Glover, conductor Joshua Smith, flute Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

HAYDN Symphony No. 6 (“Le Matin”) MOZART Concerto in C major for Flute, Harp and Orchestra MOZART Symphony No. 39

Friday, APRIL 15, 2016 at 7 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Jane Glover, conductor Joshua Smith, flute Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

MOZART Concerto in C major for Flute, Harp and Orchestra MOZART Symphony No. 39

Thursday, APRIL 21, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, APRIL 23, 2016 at 8 p.m. Sunday, APRIL 24, 2016 at 3 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Antoni Wit, conductor Jan Lisiecki, piano

WAGNER Polonia Overture CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)

Thursday, APRIL 28, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, APRIL 30, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Antonio Pappano, conductor Marie-Nicole Lemieux, mezzo-soprano

WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde CHAUSSON Poème de l’amour et de la mer STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life)

Friday, APRIL 29, 2016 at 11 a.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Antonio Pappano, conductor

WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life)

Thursday, MAY 5, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, MAY 7, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Kirill Gerstein, piano

KODÁLY Dances of Galánta RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1 STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1945 version)

Friday, MAY 6, 2016 at 11 a.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Kirill Gerstein, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1 STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1945 version)

Friday, MAY 6, 2016 at 7 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Kirill Gerstein, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 1 STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1945 version)

Thursday, MAY 12, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, MAY 13, 2016 at 8 p.m. Saturday, MAY 14, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

LISZT Orpheus, Symphonic Poem No. 4 BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

Thursday, MAY 19, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, MAY 21, 2016 at 8 p.m. Sunday, MAY 22, 2016 at 3 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

DVOŘÁK The Wood Dove JANÁČEK Suite from From the House of the Dead BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”)

Friday, MAY 20, 2016 at 11 a.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

JANÁČEK Suite from From the House of the Dead BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”)

Thursday, MAY 26, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, MAY 28, 2016 at 8 p.m. The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Luba Orgonášová, soprano Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano Norbert Ernst, tenor Eric Owens, bass-baritone Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater

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