Cincinnati Symphony to Close 'One City, One Symphony' Project with Free Concert Recording

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra announces that as part of the culmination of its second annual One City, One Symphony project, it has released the live recording from the November 14 & 16 concerts, available as a free download on the CSO's website. The downloads, which the entirety of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and Mozart's Davide Penitente, feature Music Director Louis Langrée conducting the Orchestra, the mighty May Festival Chorus and soloists Jane Archibald, Michèle Losier and Joseph Kaiser.

Visit http://cincinnatisymphony.org/ocosrecordings to download these masterworks.

These downloads have been made possible by the CSO's partnership with 90.9 WGUC, one of dozens of community partners for One City, One Symphony. The files were engineered by Chelsea VandeDrink, WGUC Mastering and Production Engineer.

"The emotional construction of [Mozart's Davide Penitente] is built like Tchaikovsky's Fourth, from the darkness to the light," said Mr. Langrée. "From the repentance of King David, saying 'I'm so sorry for what I did,' and Tchaikovsky's symphony starting with this anxiety, this doubt, this pain, this darkness, this lack of air, and going to the transformation, to the jubilation, to the transfiguration, to the eruption of this last movement is very similar," he said.

This year the CSO explored themes of love, fate and redemption, as depicted by Tchaikovsky and his musical hero Mozart, in both the community-wide "listening parties" and the concert.

Sponsored by The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati and The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, One City, One Symphony once again featured free neighborhood "listening parties" designed to explore and discuss the pieces at locations throughout the Tri-state and moderated by CSO musicians and conductors. A partnership with The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County also made educational support materials available to the public.

CET (Cincinnati's public broadcasting television affiliate) also partnered for a live television broadcast during the November 16 performance, to be available to hospitals, nursing homes and other public locations for those who would otherwise be unable to attend the performance, as well as a future local television broadcast on CETArts (to be announced at a later date).

One City, One Symphony supports the CSO's mission to create deep community engagement within the region, and is made possible by support from the The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati and The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, Media Partner Enquirer Media, as well as the following community partners: Archdiocese of Cincinnati, ArtsWave, Boone County Public Library, The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, CET, CCM Preparatory Division, Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Cincinnati USA Regional Tourism Network, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, College Hill Coffee Company and Casual Gourmet, College of Mount St. Joseph, CVG, Downtown Cincinnati Inc., 3CDC, CSO Spectrum, European-American Chamber of Commerce, Findlay Market, Forest Hills School District, Grailville Program and Retreat Center, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Greater Cincinnati World Affairs Council, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Mason- Deerfield Arts Alliance, Mayerson Jewish Community Center, May Festival Chorus, Miami University, Midpointe Library/West Chester, Most Valuable Kids, MYCincinnati, Newport on the Levee, Otterbein Senior Life Choices, Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, School for Creative and Performing Arts, Skirball Museum, Taft Museum of Art, Union Township Public Library, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, WGUC 90.9. School (non-college) partners include Walnut Hills High School, Loveland High School, Anderson High School and the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

The November 14 & 16 concerts were sponsored by HORAN, and the Masterworks Series sponsor is U.S. Bank.

Louis Langre?e, Music Director - Named Music Director of the world-renowned Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra starting in the 2013-14 season, Louis Langre?e is an internationally acclaimed conductor with a dynamic presence on the podium. The French conductor is Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York, a position he has held since 2002, and Chief Conductor of the Camerata Salzburg.

Highlights of the 2012/13 season included Louis Langre?e's debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Leipzig Gewandhaus and NHK Symphony in Tokyo, as well as re-invitations to the Orchestre de Paris, Budapest Festival and Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestras. He also continued his long term relationships with the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Dialogues des Carme?lites) and with the Wiener Staatsoper (Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro).

Louis Langre?e has conducted the Wiener Philharmoniker in concert in both Vienna and Salzburg. He has also worked with many other orchestras in North America, Europe and further afield, including London Philharmonic, Deutsche Kammerphilhamonie, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Santa Cecilia in Rome, Sao Paulo and Tokyo Philharmonic.

He regularly conducts period instrument orchestras such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Le Concert d'Astre?e. Festival appearances have included Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Mozartwoche, BBC Proms, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. He has held positions as Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie (1993-98) and Orchestre Philharmonique de Lie?ge (2001-06).

Louis Langre?e was Music Director of Ope?ra National de Lyon (1998-2000) and Glyndebourne Touring Opera (1998-2003). He has also conducted at La Scala, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ope?ra-Bastille and The?a?tre des Champs-Elyse?es in Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dresden Staatsoper, Grand The?a?tre in Geneva and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam.

Louis Langre?e's discography includes recordings for Virgin Classics, Universal and Nai?ve. Many of these have won awards including Diapason d'Or, Gramophone and Midem Classical. His most recent release is a DVD of La Traviata recorded at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with the London Symphony Orchestra for Virgin Classics, which has been awarded a Diapason D'Or. In 2006 he was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: The CSO is one of America's finest and most respected ensembles and the cultural cornerstone of Cincinnati. The fifth oldest symphony orchestra in the United States and the oldest orchestra in Ohio, the internationally acclaimed CSO has performed the American premieres of works by such composers as Debussy, Mahler, Ravel and Barto?k, and commissioned works that have since become mainstays of the classical repertoire including Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. The Orchestra has toured extensively, sold millions of recordings, and continues to commission new works and program an impressive array of music.

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