Venue: Severance Music Center, Cleveland

A daring mix of rarities and late masterpieces at Severance Music Center confirms Alexandre Kantorow as a pianist of both staggering technique and uncommon depth.

Works by Crumb, Ruggles, Barber and Gershwin offer four distinct ideas of what American music can sound like in Barbara Hannigan’s explorative Cleveland Orchestra program.

Mozart and Shostakovich make an uncomfortable fit in a program designed to highlight their differences.

Yuja Wang does double duty in demanding piano concertos by Ravel and Ligeti, while conductor Petr Popelka shows his chemistry with the orchestra in Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tugan Sokhiev memorably debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra to lead a recent concerto for English horn and Mahler’s Tragic.

The Cleveland Orchestra couples a war-torn symphony of Arthur Honegger with Gustav Mahler’s sublime orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde.

Dima Slobodeniouk returns to Cleveland for an evening of Romantic era masterworks, and pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii makes a memorable local debut.

Technical finesse and lively interpretations of dance suites showcase both the conductor's and the orchestra's strengths.