The Florida Orchestra

Opening Night: Carmina Burana
Sun, Oct 16, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

Mixing monk-like chant, angelic arias, writhing rhythms, raucous lyrics and raw visceral power, Orff’s Carmina Burana is an intoxicating powerhouse of a piece for over 200 instrumentalists and voices on a program with Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio Overture and Haydn’s Symphony No. 100, Military.

Mahler's Symphony No. 7
Sun, Oct 30, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

Immerse yourself in Mahler’s Symphony No. 7...overflowing with an emotional and enigmatic mix of swirling sonorities, rich colors, pensive passages, haunting horn calls, rhythmic energies, romantic nocturnal interludes and contrasting moods of light and shadow...in a glorious and daunting musical journey.

Beethoven's Violin Concerto
Sun, Nov 13, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

Hailed by The Washington Post as having “talent that’s off the scale,” Stefan Jackiw performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with its glorious blend of beauty, elegance and bravura...in stark contrast to Prokofiev’s elegy to the losses of war in his Symphony No. 6.

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21
Sun, Dec 4, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

Acclaimed by The Toledo Blade as “a marvel,” award-winning Austrian pianist Cornelia Herrmann performs Mozart’s sunny and buoyant Piano Concerto No. 21 on a program with Haydn’s La fedelta premiata overture and Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 3.

Pictures at an Exhibition
Sun, Jan 15, 8 pm, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

From carefree and spirited to almost overwhelming, it is a night of musical impressions inspired by great art:  Botticelli in Respighi’s Trittico Botticelliano, Matthias Grünewald in Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler and Victor Hartmann in Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite
Sun, Jan 29, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

Lauded by The Toronto Star as “a great pianist,” Markus Groh returns to perform Bartok’s vivacious and highly rhythmic musical roller coaster ride...Piano Concerto No. 2...in a night with Bartok’s Divertimento and the sweeping balletic themes of Tchaikovsky’s famed Swan Lake Suite.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
Sun, Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

Hailed as “a gigantic talent” by The Baltimore Sun, Valentina Lisitsa reveals the rapturous beauty and rhapsodic themes of one of the most popular of all romantic concertos, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2...in a night with Nielsen’s Helios Overture and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1.

Voices of Spring
Sun, Mar 18, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

Embrace the promise of springtime, the spirit of renewal and the carefree days of warmer weather with Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, “Spring.”

Brahms' Symphony No. 4
Sun, Apr 15, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

Acclaimed simply as “one of the greats” by the Manchester Evening News, internationally renowned conductor Günther Herbig is joined by Principal Trumpet Robert Smith in Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto on a program with Brahms’ mighty Symphony No. 4.

Rhythms of Cuba
Sun, May 13, 7:30 pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall

In a Latin flavored program, Music Director of La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba Enrique Pérez Mesa is joined by Principal Timpanist John Bannon in James Lewis’ Cubanitis for solo timpani and orchestra on a program with Carlos Fariñas’ Penthesilea: Preludio, Guido López-Gavilán’s Ritmotiv, José Pablo Moncayo’s Huapango and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, Classical.