The Cleveland Orchestra: Kazuki Yamada - All Tchaikovsky

The Cleveland Orchestra: Kazuki Yamada - All Tchaikovsky at Severance Music Center

Tchaikovsky can make a piano sound triumphant and an orchestra sound heartbroken—sometimes in the same evening. This all-Tchaikovsky program brings those extremes together under Kazuki Yamada, with Beatrice Rana at the piano.

Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto is the sort of work that grabs you fast: bold, lyrical, and built around a piano line that can feel both athletic and singable. Then the Pathétique shifts the performance into deeper emotional territory, with a symphony that moves through tension, longing, and release. Hearing both works in one program lets the composer’s range take center stage instead of scattering your attention across a mixed bill.

Yamada adds another reason to pay attention. He is music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and artistic and music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, which makes this Cleveland appearance part of a serious international profile. And at Severance Music Center, the sound has the kind of clarity and weight that makes orchestral details matter.

Be there for the fireworks and the heartbreak. Get The Cleveland Orchestra: Kazuki Yamada - All Tchaikovsky tickets for Cleveland.