Thu 1/7 @ 7:30PM
Fri 1/8 @ 11AM
Sat 1/9 @ 8PM
The Cleveland Orchestra opens the 2016 by bringing back a popular pianist: 58-year-old Uzbecki/Israeli/American Yefim Bronfman (pictured). He’ll perform on a program entirely dedicated to a very popular composer: Beethoven.
Music director Franz Welser-Möst will lead the orchestra in three concerts at which Bronfman will play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and the orchestra will play his String Quartet No. 15 for string orchestra.
On Thursday and Saturday evenings the orchestra will be joined by the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus to also perform Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, a work described as a precursor to the well-known “Ode to Joy” choral finale of his Symphony No 9.
Tickets are $29-$149.