The parade of guest conductors this year at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra continued Nov. 10 with the debut of Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno in an eclectic program. It turned out to be both thoughtful and exciting.
The orchestra was in good hands with Gimeno, who was at ease whether he was leading a new work by Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason or Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1, which featured the excellent German violinist Christian Tetzlaff as soloist. Those works were the…