SAT NOV 8, 2025, 7:30 PM
SUN NOV 9, 2025, 2:00 PM
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Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Andriana Chuchman, soprano
Garrett Sorenson, tenor
Joshua Hopkins, baritone
May Festival Chorus, Matthew Swanson, director
Sergei RACHMANINOFF (1873–1943)
The Bells, Op. 35
Allegro, ma non tanto
Lento
Presto
Lento lugubre
INTERMISSION
Hector BERLIOZ (1803–1869)
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14a
Reveries, Passions
A Ball
Scene in the Country
March to the Scaffold
Dream of the Witches' Sabbath
These performances are approximately 120 minutes long, including intermission.
The CSO is grateful to CSO Season Sponsor Western & Southern Financial Group.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation, the Nina Browne Parker Trust, and the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.
WGUC is the Media Partner for these concerts. This concert will air on 90.9 WGUC on January 18, 2026, followed by 30 days of streaming at cincinnatisymphony.org/replay.
The CSO in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.
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