Yuja Wang doubles down and Petr Popelka throws himself into the music with the Cleveland Orchestra

United StatesUnited States Ravel, Ligeti, Mussorgsky: Yuja Wang (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Petr Popelka (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 28.11.2025. (MSJ)

Petr Popelka conducts Mussorgsky with the Cleveland Orchestra © Human Artist Photography/TCO

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Les Délices gets ‘Wild’ in their Music from the Western Reserve concert

United StatesUnited States Various, ‘Wild Things’: Les Délices: Elena Mullins Bailey (soprano), Deborah Nagy (oboe and recorder), Shelby Yamin (violin), Rebecca Landell (cello), Mark Edwards (harpsichord). Christ Church Episcopal, Hudson, 23.11.2025. (MSJ)

Les Délices bows after their ‘Wild Things’ program at Music from the Western Reserve © MFWR

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There Will Be Blood-y Stravinsky and much more: the Danish String Quartet impresses in Oberlin

United StatesUnited States Various, ‘Artist Recital Series’: Danish String Quartet: Frederik Øland, Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (violins), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola), Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (cello). Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, Oberlin, 21.11.2025. (MSJ)

Danish String Quartet

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Mark Jordan in conversation with conductor Dalia Stasevska about her return to the Cleveland Orchestra

Questions on the road for conductor Dalia Stasevska

Dalia Stasevska © Veikko Kahkonen

Ukrainian-born Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska (currently principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra) will be returning to conduct the Cleveland Orchestra 20-23 November in a program that features Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony and La Noche de los Mayas by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Busy schedules prohibited the conductor and Seen and Heard International critic Mark Sebastian Jordan from finding an ideal time to speak in person, so they devised a correspondence interview that would allow Stasevska to work on her answers whenever she found a stray moment between family, study, rehearsals, performances and travel.

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Mozart or ‘Woke-zart’ in Cleveland? Apollo’s Fire provokes discussion

United StatesUnited States Various, ‘Mozart’s Requiem: A Tapestry’: Sonya Headlam (soprano), Guadalupe Paz (mezzo-soprano), Jacob Perry (tenor), Kevin Deas (bass-baritone), Elora Kares (soprano), Charles Wesley Evans (baritone), Apollo’s Singers, Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 8.11.2025. (MSJ)

Jeannette Sorrel conducts ‘A Mozart Tapestry’ with Apollo’s Fire and soloists © Malcolm Henoch

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Warmth, grace and a scientist’s orchestral lab: old and new works glow in Cleveland

United StatesUnited States ‘Ohlsson Plays Mozart’: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 30.10.2025. (MSJ)

Tyler Taylor bows after the performance of Permissions © Yevhen Gulenko/Human Artist Photography

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