Si Ji ("Four Seasons") is the latest co-commission by the Lucerne Festival, the Cleveland Orchestra, Carnegie, and the Roche drug company; the Cleveland Orchestra played it in Lucerne in August and at Severance Hall last week before the New York premiere this evening. Tonight's concert, conducted by music director Franz Welser-M‹st, also includes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture and First Symphony.

The European tour starts on October 21 at Luxembourg's Salle de Concerts Grande-Duchesse Jos_phine-Charlotte before moving to Frankfurt, Cologne, Budapest, and Vienna, where the orchestra will perform the second of a series of biennial residences at the Musikverein.

The programs include Thomas Ads's Chamber Symphony, Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Ives' Second Symphony, and Messiaen's TurangalêÎla-symphonie, with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and ondes martenot player Cynthia Millar, as well as the two Brahms works.