Jerusalem Quartet to play Shostakovich cycle in new Cleveland Chamber Music Society season
Cleveland Chamber Music Society’s season in 2024-25
Mark S Jordan
Ólafsson and Welser-Möst in a richly played Blossom Festival concert
United States Blossom Festival 2024 [5]: Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, 17.8.2024. (MSJ)
Welser-Möst is patient and potent in Bruckner’s Fourth with the Cleveland Orchestra
United States Summers at Severance 2024 [2]: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 15.8.2024. (MSJ)
Apollo’s Fire rediscovers and reinterprets Vivaldi in Ohio
United States ‘Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Rediscovered’ – Various: Alan Choo (violin), Kathie Stewart (traverso), Ellen Saurer Tanyeri (traverso), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). Bath Church, Akron, Ohio, 13.8.2024. (MSJ)
Mark Kosower’s Walton Cello Concerto steals the show at Cleveland’s Blossom Festival
United States Blossom Festival 2024 [4]: Mark Kosower (cello), Cleveland Orchestra / Hannu Lintu (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, 27.7.2024. (MSJ)
Impressive Blossom debut by Antonello Manacorda, joined by a vivid Véronique Gens
United States Blossom Festival 2024 [3] – Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Beethoven: Véronique Gens (soprano), Cleveland Orchestra / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 20.7.2024. (MSJ)
Hindoyan makes his Cleveland debut in an engaging Russian program at Blossom
United States Blossom Festival 2024 [2] – Borodin, Arutiunian, Rachmaninoff: Michael Sachs (trumpet), Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (chorus director: Lisa Wong), Cleveland Orchestra / Domingo Hindoyan (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 13.7.2024. (MSJ)
Lyniv and Barnatan conjure vivid light and shade in Cleveland for ‘Summers at Severance’
United States Summers at Severance 2024 [1]: Inon Barnatan (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Oksana Lyniv (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 11.7.2024. (MSJ)
