The best concerts have lots of pyrotechnics, which is why classical pianists always wear asbestos pants. Insulate yourself from boredom with today’s GrouponLive deal: for $54, you get one ticket to three of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s classical “Bucket List” concerts at Music Hall (up to a $135 value). Concertgoers will be seated in the Gallery D section and may choose between two dates for each performance. The “Bucket List” series includes the following concerts and dates:

• “Lang Lang Plays Liszt”
• Friday, January 27, at 8 p.m.
• Saturday, January 28, at 8 p.m.
• “Beethoven’s Pastoral”
• Friday, February 24, at 11 a.m.
• Saturday, February 25, at 8 p.m.
• “Midori—Fantastique!”
• Friday, March 23, at 11 a.m.
• Saturday, March 24, at 8 p.m.<p>

Groupon users may exchange their tickets for any other Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra subscription concerts through May 5 at no extra charge.

Technical virtuosity and compositional elegance form the common ties that unite the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s triumvirate of must-see concerts, a program that the musicians themselves nominate as the pinnacle of classical performance. Hailed in the New York Times as a “brash and hugely gifted” tickler of ivories, Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang takes cues and pizza orders from dynamic German conductor Jun Märkl in a poetic performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto no. 1. Conductor Ludovic Morlot and virtuosic pianist Jonathan Biss chart a course for the countryside with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 6, a pastoral symphony whose simple-life motifs inform the string section’s decision to play with willow branches instead of bows. Violinist Midori sticks to more conventional techniques as she tackles the structural complexities of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto alongside conductor Pinchas Steinberg’s leading of Symphonie fantastique.

The orchestra’s strings, brasses, and woodwinds intertwine to form a densely woven welcome mat that welcomes visitors to their Music Hall home. The acoustically attuned venue features plush seating for 3,417, allowing ample room for fans to clap along and drown out the ghostly wails of maestro batons past that dart up and down the aisles of the Gallery D seats.