A crowd-pleasing program and a rare trumpet soloist added up to an electric evening at the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra on Saturday.

Music Hall was fairly full for Saturday’s concert, which was highlighted in the second half by a magnificent performance of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” in the well-known Ravel orchestration. There was also a remarkable performance by Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, who made her Cincinnati debut in Arutiunian’s Trumpet Concerto in A-flat Major.

But first, the program, led by guest maestro Andrey Boreyko, opened with another rarity: Stravinsky’s Funeral Song of 1908.  Read More »