Andsnes stays on to perform the Mozart concerto at a matinee concert tomorrow at 3 pm. Also on the program, which will be conducted by Welser-M‹st, are Dvoršk's Symphony No. 5 and the US premiere of Hanspeter Kyburz's touch_, featuring soprano Laura Aikin and tenor John Mark Ainsley.
The Cleveland Orchestra then travels east to New York, where it will open Carnegie Hall's 2006-07 season with the same program it performs tonight. The band stays on for two further concerts on October 5 and 7, including the Kyburz, the Dvoršk, Debussy's La Mer, Bruckner's Fifth Symphony and arias by Mozart sung by Quasthoff.
Throughout the season, Welser-M‹st will conduct works rarely performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, including Ginastera's Variaciones Concertantes, Kodšly's "Peacock" Variations, Ligeti's Atmosphres and Sibelius's Tapiola.
New music is also highlighted: the orchestra will perform, in addition to the Kyburz, Osvaldo Golijov's Last Round; world premieres include Richard Sortomme's Viola Concerto, written for Cleveland Orchestra principal violist Robert Vernon, and a new work by British composer Julian Anderson.
German conductor and composer Matthias Pintscher will lead the U.S. premiere of his cello concerto Reflections on Narcissus; cellist Truls Mêªrk, for whom it was written; will be the soloist.
Mitsuko Uchida will conclude a five-year project begun in the 2002-03 season to perform the complete Mozart piano concertos. Other soloists featured during the upcoming season include pianists Emanuel Ax, Horacio Guti_rrez, and Stephen Hough and violinists Hilary Hahn, Sergei Khachatryan, and Gil Shaham.
Welser-M‹st will also lead the orchestra in a number of repertoire staples, including Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphony No. 2, Mahler's Symphony No. 1, Mozart's Symphony No. 38 ("Prague"), and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.
The season will end on June 7 and 9, 2007, with Welser-M‹st conducting two concert performances of Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier. Dorothea R‹schmann will sing the Marschallin, with Katarina Karn_us as Octavian, Malin Hartelius as Sophie and Alfred Muff as Baron Ochs.
For more information on the Cleveland Orchestra's 2006-07 season, visit www.clevelandorch.com.
