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

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

Some Sunday plans are forgettable. A full orchestra unleashing Holst's The Planets isn't one of them. Add Thomas Adès's Inferno Suite and Francisco Coll's Lilith, and the afternoon becomes a trip through fire, mystery, and the cosmos.

Adès’s Inferno Suite adds a darker, contemporary edge, while Francisco Coll’s Lilith gives the program another layer of modern orchestral imagination. Then comes Holst’s The Planets, a work that turns the orchestra into a series of vivid, shifting worlds. It is music that rewards attention because every movement has its own atmosphere, its own pressure, its own sense of motion.

That kind of programming matters most when you hear it in a hall designed for detail. At Severance Music Center, the textures and contrasts should land with real presence, and The Cleveland Orchestra has the scale and refinement to make this repertoire feel alive from the first cue to the last resonance.

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