It’s a big week for classical orchestra concerts, large and small, general and specialized. You could catch one or more performances every day from Wednesday through next Tuesday (and three on Sunday).

– On Wednesday the 20th at 7:30, the CIM Orchestra plays music by Caroline Shaw, Benjamin Britten, and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart at Mentor High School Fine Arts Center.

– The Cleveland Orchestra will play an updated program featuring Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali and violinist Stefan Jackiw beginning on Thursday the 21st at 7:30 and repeated on Friday at 7:30 and Saturday at 8. The program includes Carl Nielsen’s Overture to Maskarade, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto & Jan Sibeius’ Symphony No. 1.

– On Friday the 22nd at Rocky River Presbyterian and Saturday the 23rd at the Church of the Covenant, Blue Water Chamber Orchestra will feature its concertmaster James Thompson in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, and conductor Daniel Myer will lead the ensemble in Gerald Finzi’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Joseph Haydn’s last symphony, No. 104. Both start at 7:30.

– The Canton Symphony will mark the 100th Anniversary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the 23rd at 7:30, but in its later symphonic version, featuring pianist Baron Fenwick, who will also solo in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Rounding out the program, Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz will conduct the CSO in Aaron Copland’s Music for the Theatre, Victor Herbert’s A Suite of Serenades, and Scott Joplin’s Overture to Treemonisha

– Also on Saturday the 23rd at 7:30, the New York-based period instrument orchestra The Relic Ensemble will take the audience at Transformer Station on a Journey into the underworld, “where darkness dwells and mysterious creatures lurk,” through two centuries of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Georg PhilippTelemann, and André Campra.

– Then on Sunday the 24th, a trio of orchestra concerts includes The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra at 3 pm, and Heights Chamber Orchestra and the Suburban Symphony, both at 3:30.

– COYO will play Lilli Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, Aaron Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 under the baton of Daniel Reith at Severance Music Center.

– Travis Jürgens and Heights Chamber Orchestra will serve up Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (with soloist Amy Lee of The Cleveland Orchestra) and Vasily Kalinnikov’s Symphony No. 1 at St. Paul’s, Cleveland Hts.

– Suburban will feature clarinetist Stanislav Golovin in the Mozart concerto, and conductor Domenico Boyagian will lead Cleveland’s major avocational orchestra in Antonin Dvořák’s Carnival Overture and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41.

– The last orchestra to play this week makes its debut on Tuesday the 26th at 7 at the Dodero Center at Gilmour Academy when Grzegorz Nowak conducts pianists Jiana Peng and Konrad Binienda and the Chopin Institute of Ohio Orchestra in works by Fryderyk Chopin, Richard Addinsell, and Karol Szymanowski.

Let’s back up to include two interesting non-orchestral events.

– On Wednesday the 20th at 7:30 in Warner Concert Hall, the Oberlin Percussion Group joins Oberlin College Taiko in a program directed by Ross Karre.

– And on Friday the 22nd at 7:30, Les Délices takes a look and a listen to 14th Century Avant-garde music at First Congregational in Hudson, program to be repeated on Saturday the 23rd at 7:30 at the Pivot Center in Ohio City and Sunday the 24th at 4 at Disciples Church in Cleveland Hts.

For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.

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