Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: Rach of Ages — Juraj Valčuha, conductor, Lise de la Salle, piano, and Robert Sullivan, trumpet

French pianist Lise de la Salle makes her CSO debut with Shostakovich’s First Concerto, a vibrant work of uncommon lyricism and delicacy, while CSO principal trumpet Robert Sullivan plays the virtuoso solo that appears throughout the concerto and steals the show at its closing bars. Slovakian conductor Juraj Valčuha completes this colorful program with Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony, whose luminous themes move brilliantly from brash and energetic to sweet and lyrical and back again.