Sala: Music Hall, Cincinnati

The Cincinnati Symphony vividly brings to life sprawling vistas of the American West in a stellar performance of Messiaen’s vast Des Canyons aux étoiles…

The May Festival pulls all the stops to close their sesquicentennial season with Mahler’s vast and triumphant Eighth Symphony.

The Cincinnati May Festival pairs a deeply-felt Mozart Requiem with a new work for chorus and orchestra by Julia Adolphe.

The Cincinnati Symphony thoughtfully illuminates a diverse cross-section of 20th-century repertoire with conductor Michael Francis and pianist Behzod Abduraimov.

Daniil Trifonov’s Cincinnati recital prefaced an imposing Brahms sonata with shorter works by Szymanowski, Debussy, and Prokofiev.

Conductor Matthias Pintscher and soloists Michelle DeYoung and Sean Panikker offered a moving but uneven interpretation of Das Lied von der Erde.

The CSO packed much excitement into an hour-long program, featuring folk-inspired works of Walker and Kodály, along with the irresistible charm of Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto.

Music Director Louis Langrée leads a program of Schubert, Julia Perry's Homunculus CF and Anthony Davis's You Have the Right to Remain Silent, featuring Anthony McGill as an outstanding clarinet soloist.