The Cleveland Orchestra: Santtu-Matias Rouvali & Seong-Jin Cho - Chopin

The Cleveland Orchestra: Santtu-Matias Rouvali & Seong-Jin Cho - Chopin at Severance Music Center

What happens when Chopin's elegant piano writing meets the precision of The Cleveland Orchestra? With Seong-Jin Cho at the keyboard, even the softest phrase can become the center of the room.

Seong-Jin Cho returns to take on Chopin’s First Piano Concerto, written when the composer was only 20. That detail matters: the piece carries youth, elegance, and danger at the same time, and it asks for a pianist who can make the lines sing without softening the risk. Cho has the touch and command to make that balance feel alive.

Then Rouvali shifts the performance into another world with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15, a late work full of memory, quotation, and uneasy calm. It gives the program real contrast: one half built on Romantic lyricism, the other on a composer looking back with sharp, searching ears. That pairing turns the concert into more than a showcase for a soloist; it becomes a full conversation across styles and eras. Severance Music Center is the right place to hear that conversation unfold.

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