CLEVELAND — Can't attend The Cleveland Orchestra's concerts at Severance Music Center in person? You still have an opportunity to experience the sounds of one of America's finest orchestras live from home through TCO's digital streaming service, Adella.
The Cleveland Orchestra announced Monday that its streaming service and app will host air live, real-time streams of six concerts from its upcoming 2024-25 season. Adella, named for the orchestra's founder Adella Prentiss Hughes, will also stream nine "digital premieres" of previously recorded TCO performances along with "exclusive behind-the-scenes features and interviews with guest artists and TCO musicians," the orchestra said in a press release.
Adella's "Live From Severance" series begins on TCO's opening weekend, with a live airing of the 3 p.m. matinee performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique” on Sunday, Sept. 22. The performance will be conducted by longtime music director Franz Welser-Möst. Also featured on the program is Prokofiev's First Symphony and a performance of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto led by soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann.
The Adella premieres of previous concerts began Tuesday with an airing of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 as performed by The Cleveland Orchestra last December. In a new digital program titled "In our Hands," British guest conductor Daniel Harding "takes a stroll from Severance Music Center to the Cleveland Museum of Art to view Gustav Mahler’s complete, handwritten score of the monumental Second Symphony" before he "contemplates the distinct beauty of the composer’s Fourth Symphony and his profound connection to the composer’s work, as well as the privilege of holding, performing, and sharing such timeless masterpieces with the audience," program materials from the orchestra read.
The livestreams and digital premieres are available through an Adella Premium subscription, which costs $14.99 per month or $119.99 per year. Cleveland Orchestra subscribers get a discounted annual subscription at the rate of $80 per year.
The Cleveland Orchestra 'Live From Severance' on Adella schedule
- LIVE FROM SEVERANCE: TCHAIKOVSKY’S PATHÉTIQUE
Sunday, September 22, 2024, at 3 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical”
R. SCHUMANN Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”
- LIVE FROM SEVERANCE: SALONEN CONDUCTS SALONEN
Sunday, October 13, 2024, at 3 p.m.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Senja Rummukainen, cello (Cleveland Orchestra debut)
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Cello Concerto (Cleveland Orchestra premiere)
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
- LIVE FROM SEVERANCE: RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Sunday, December 1, 2024, at 3 p.m.
David Robertson, conductor
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
ELLINGTON New World A-Comin’
COPLAND Suite from The Tender Land
- LIVE FROM SEVERANCE: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CELEBRATION CONCERT
Sunday, January 19, 2025, at 7 p.m.
Free Event
The Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Chorus
Daniel Reith, conductor
William Henry Caldwell, conductor
- LIVE FROM SEVERANCE: HAYDN & STRAUSS
Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Asmik Grigorian, soprano (Cleveland Orchestra debut)
HAYDN Symphony No. 52
R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs
JANÁČEK Suite from From the House of the Dead (arr. Jílek)
PUCCINI Final Scene from Suor Angelica (Cleveland Orchestra premiere)
- LIVE FROM SEVERANCE: VOX HUMANA
Saturday, May 24, 2025, at 8 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Sarah Aristidou, soprano (Cleveland Orchestra debut)
Tony Sias, narrator
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
POULENC La voix humaine (Cleveland Orchestra premiere)
J.S. BACH Concerto from Komm, Jesu, komm (Cleveland Orchestra premiere)
USTVOLSKAYA Symphony No. 5, “Amen” (Cleveland Orchestra premiere)
J.S. BACH Aria from Komm, Jesu, komm (Cleveland Orchestra premiere)
R. STRAUSS Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten
The Cleveland Orchestra 'Adella Premieres' schedule
- ADELLA PREMIERE: MAHLER’S FOURTH SYMPHONY
Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 7 p.m.
Daniel Harding, conductor
Liv Redpath, soprano
MAHLER Symphony No. 4
- ADELLA PREMIERE: HANNIGAN CONDUCTS STRAUSS
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, at 7 p.m.
Barbara Hannigan, conductor (Severance Music Center Conducting Debut)
Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano (Cleveland Orchestra Debut)
HAYDN Symphony No. 44, “Trauersinfonie”
VIVIER Lonely Child (Cleveland Orchestra Premiere)
LIGETI Lontano
R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
- ADELLA PREMIERE: A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Monday, December 23, 2024, at 7 p.m.
- ADELLA PREMIERE: THE TEMPEST SYMPHONY
Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 7 p.m.
Thomas Adès, conductor (Cleveland Orchestra Conducting Debut)
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
SIBELIUS The Tempest Prelude and Suite No.1
SIBELIUS Humoresques
ADÈS Märchentänze
ADÈS The Tempest Symphony
- ADELLA PREMIERE: TCHAIKOVSKY’S SECOND SYMPHONY
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
MOZART Symphony No. 29
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2, “Ukrainian”
- ADELLA PREMIERE: MOZART'S LAST PIANO CONCERTO
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27
- ADELLA PREMIERE: A DOUBLE DOSE OF BARTÓK
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 (arr. Stanley Konopka for double string orchestra) (Cleveland Orchestra Premiere)
BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
- ADELLA PREMIERE: MAHLER’S SONG OF THE NIGHT (RECORDED AT THE KONZERTHAUS VIENNA)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
MAHLER Selected Songs
MAHLER Symphony No. 7
- ADELLA PREMIERE: MAHLER AND KŘENEK
Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at 7 p.m.
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
KŘENEK Kleine Symphonie (Cleveland Orchestra Premiere)
MAHLER/ KŘENEK Adagio from Symphony No. 10
