United States In Focus / Bonus Episode 2: Alisa Weilerstein Plays Bach: Alisa Weilerstein (cello). Performance from Severance Hall, Cleveland, and first streamed 25.2.2021. (MSJ)
Alisa Weilerstein communes with Bach in Cleveland’s Severance Hall
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Bonus delights from Cleveland and London
United States In Focus / Bonus Episode 1: Sonata and Serenade: Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London (January 2021); Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio (November 2020, reviewed as a video stream). (MSJ)
Riveting Musical Patterns in Cleveland Orchestra livestream
United States In Focus / Episode Five: Musical Patterns: Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Jung-Min Amy Lee (violin), Strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Vinay Parameswaran (conductor). Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, Performance from January 2021 reviewed as a livestream. (MSJ)
Urbane comfort from the Cleveland Orchestra and Nicholas McGegan
United States In Focus / Episode Four: Inventions: Strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Nicholas McGegan (conductor and harpsichord). Severance Hall, Cleveland, 10.12.2020, and reviewed as a livestream. (MSJ)
Cleveland’s Apollo’s Fire finds sizzling Allure in the early Baroque
United States Allure: The Three Amandas: Amanda Forsythe (soprano), Amanda Powell (soprano), Amanda Crider (mezzo-soprano), Members of Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor / harpsichord). First Baptist Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio, 8.11.2020, and reviewed as a livestream. (MSJ)
and Amanda Crider with Apollo’s Fire.
Humane Haydn and human Bartók from the Cleveland Orchestra
United States In Focus / Episode Three – Ax Plays Haydn: Emanuel Ax (piano), strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 5.11.2020, and reviewed as a livestream. (MSJ)
Catharsis and regeneration with Schnittke and Beethoven in Cleveland
United States In Focus / Episode Two, Bronfman and Beethoven: Yefim Bronfman (piano), strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor), Recorded at the Severance Hall, Cleveland, on 15-16.10.2020, and reviewed as a livestream. (MSJ)
© Roger Mastroianni
The stellar Cleveland Orchestra is back with a superb concert and a new streaming app
United States In Focus/Episode One, Inspirations: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Performed at Severance Hall, Cleveland, and live-streamed on 8.10.2020, and currently steaming on Cleveland’s Adella app. (MSJ)
