Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra

Nearing the end of their 15-concert European tour, The Cleveland Orchestra and outgoing Music Director play music from Strauss’ opera Daphne and Shostakovich’s gruelling Eighth Symphony.

Welser-Möst keeps Bohuslav Martinů's seemingly unruly orchestral scoring wonderfully lucid as The Cleveland Orchestra visits Vienna's Musikverein. 

Wagner, contemporary fireworks, and Straussian extravagance make for a characteristic Welser-Möst program as The Cleveland Orchestra's Music Director looks towards his final season.

Semyon Bychkov conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in idiomatic performances of Smetana and Dvořák, while Garrick Ohlsson brings commanding authority to a youthful Rachmaninov concerto.

An evening with the Cleveland Orchestra shows the virtuoso violinist in fine form both as a player and a Beethoven devotee on the podium.

Franz Welser-Möst leads a program reflective of the artistic threads that have defined his Cleveland tenure: Prokofiev, contemporary Austrian music and Wagner.

Longtime music journalist and founder of ArtsJournal talks about the multiple crises facing orchestras and arts organisations in the United States, amid the damage wrought by the second Trump administration.

The Hong Kong-born conductor talks about her entry into music, her love of big Russian repertoire, her “Cinderella moment” winning the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition and her ambition to “go against the grind”. 

The conductor who transformed The Cleveland Orchestra into one of the world's leading ensembles died on 6th September 2025, just two days before his 96th birthday.