United States Blossom Music Festival [4]: Sayaka Shoji (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Jahja Ling (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 22.8.2021. (MSJ)
Potent Brahms in Sayaka Shoji’s Cleveland Orchestra debut
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Karina Canellakis debuts at Blossom with a stern Tchaikovsky
United States Blossom Music Festival [3]: Behzod Abduraimov (piano), Michael Sachs (trumpet), Cleveland Orchestra / Karina Canellakis (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 15.8.2021. (MSJ)
Restraint over risk in Rafael Payare’s Cleveland debut
United States Blossom Music Festival [2] – From the New World: Stefan Jackiw (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Rafael Payare (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 25.7.2021. (MSJ)
Two forces to be reckoned with debut at Blossom: Florence Price and Michelle Cann
United States Blossom Music Festival [1], An American Celebration: Michelle Cann (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Brett Mitchell (conductor), Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 4.7.2021. (MSJ)
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Korngold’s volatile Serenade in Cleveland
United States In Focus / Episode Thirteen: Dance & Drama: Strings of The Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Performed in Severance Hall, Cleveland, recorded 30.3 and 2.4.2021 and streamed from 17.6.2021. (MSJ)
Fresh and vital Kernis and Suk from The Cleveland Orchestra
United States In Focus / Episode Twelve, Celestial Serenades: Michael Sachs (trumpet), Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), Strings of The Cleveland Orchestra / Vinay Parameswaran (conductor). Performed in Severance Hall, Cleveland, recorded in spring 2021, broadcast 3.5.2021, and reviewed as a video stream. (MSJ)
Lush Berg and poised Mozart in Cleveland
United States In Focus / Episode Eleven, Order and Disorder: Afendi Yusuf (clarinet), Stephen Rose (violin), Jeanne Preucil Rose (violin), Lynne Ramsey (viola), Mark Kosower (cello), Strings of The Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Performed in Severance Hall, Cleveland, 18-19.3 and 14.4.2021 and reviewed as a video stream. (MSJ)
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Pairing style and substance in Cleveland with Britten and Ravel
United States In Focus / Episode Ten, Style & Craft: Frank Rosenwein (oboe), Carolyn Gadiel Warner (piano), Strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Vinay Parameswaran (conductor). Previously recorded at Severance Hall, Cleveland (9.3 and 8-9.4.2021) and reviewed as a video stream. (MSJ)
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