The Cleveland Orchestra: Thomas Ades - Holst's The Planets

The Cleveland Orchestra: Thomas Ades - Holst's The Planets at Severance Music Center

Mars doesn't need a spaceship to shake a concert hall. Holst's The Planets can do it with an orchestra. Add Thomas Adès conducting his own Inferno Suite and a new work by Francisco Coll, and Cleveland gets a journey with real fire before the planets even appear.

Cleveland concert tickets become a lot more tempting when the program opens with Thomas Adès at the podium and his own Inferno Suite on the stand. Adès is a composer-conductor with a major catalog behind him, including The Exterminating Angel and The Tempest, and his music brings a modern charge that keeps the performance from feeling routine.

Then comes the U.S. premiere of Francisco Coll’s Lilith, a fresh addition that gives this program real curiosity value before Holst even arrives. That matters because The Planets lands differently when it is part of a larger dramatic arc rather than the only piece in view. Here, it shares the stage with music that pushes outward, not backward.

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