The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Strauss's Alpine Symphony

The Cleveland Orchestra: Franz Welser-Most - Strauss's Alpine Symphony at Severance Music Center

Strauss's Alpine Symphony can take you up a mountain without leaving your seat. Sunrise, storms, vast views, and the journey home all emerge from an orchestra at full strength. That's the kind of adventure you want to hear in person.

This program gives Cleveland a rare three-part arc: Bernd Richard Deutsch’s Intensity, Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2, and Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony. That means the performance can move from a modern work written especially for The Cleveland Orchestra to Eastman’s expressive symphonic voice, then end in one of Strauss’s most expansive journeys. For listeners who care about how a program is shaped, that contrast matters.

Welser-Möst’s long partnership with the orchestra gives the performance added focus, especially in Strauss repertoire where color and pacing can change everything. An Alpine Symphony is not a small gesture; it is Strauss at full scale, with a score that rewards close attention and a great hall. Hearing it in Mandel Concert Hall lets those details and climaxes unfold with real force.

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