The Cleveland Orchestra

Enjoy an opportunity to hear a unique composition performed by the artist for whom it was written. Jörg Widmann composed his Trauermarsch (Funeral March) for Yefim Bronfman, and this lushly scored concerto showcases the pianist’s remarkable skills. A funeral march opens Mahler’s symphony, but it’s only one episode in a work that pulses with life, features an exquisite musical love letter to his wife, and—as Mahler believed— embraces the world.

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Beethoven the boisterous humorist, heaven-storming revolutionary, and all-embracing humanist appear in his last two symphonies. The Eighth is a bubbly romp with a witty imitation of a metronome in its second movement and a tip of its hat to Haydn in its minuet. From its mysterious opening to its joyous choral finale, the Ninth is grander and more dramatic than anything that came before. Experience its groundbreaking power as that 1824 audience would have when the musicians of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique perform on instruments of that time.

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Hear the fascinating ways Beethoven inherited the symphony of his predecessors and transformed it for all time. His Symphony No. 2 looks back to Haydn and Mozart, but Beethoven infused it with dashes of rowdy humor and a Romantic sensibility—particularly the poetic slow movement—that are among his hallmarks. With the slashing opening chords of the "Eroica," Beethoven forever changed the symphony by introducing newfound depths of emotion, colossal power, and sheer scale.