Louis Langrée opens his third season as CSO Music Director with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a tour de force of orchestral sounds and colors, from the dreamy “Reveries” to the whirling “Ball,” to the eerie “March to the Scaffold.”Pianist Yefim Bronfman, an artist beloved by CSO audiences and lauded by listeners the world over, joins the Orchestra to perform the virtuosic Bartók Concerto No. 2, music that is fierce and lyrical.
Program
BEETHOVEN: Overture to Fidelio
BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No. 2
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique
Tickets start at $12 in advance. Discounted tickets available for seniors, under 30 & full-time students, and military.
Phone: (513) 381-3300
Email: information@cincinnatisymphony.org
2015/09/25 - 2015/09/27
Additional time info:
The Sunday performance is part of "Stories in Concert"; for the first half of the concert, hear excerpts from Symphonie fantastique performed live by the full Orchestra while Louis shares compelling stories about the composer's life and work, while the second half is a full performance of the work. The Beethoven and Bartók works will not be performed on Sunday; Yefim Bronfman will not perform on Sunday.