United States Elgar, Bartók: Cleveland Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 10.8.2018. (MSJ)
In His Second Cleveland Appearance, Vasily Petrenko Continues to Impress
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After a Buttoned-Up Start, Beethoven’s Ninth Reaches Transcendence
United States Beethoven: Erin Wall (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Norbert Ernst (tenor), Dashon Burton (bass-baritone), Cleveland Orchestra Chorus/Lisa Wong (director), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 17.5.2018. (MSJ)
A Wagner Skeptic Reports on a Stylish Tristan in Concert
United States Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Men of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Lisa Wong (acting chorus director), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 29.4.2018. (MSJ)
Reconstructed Monteverdi Brings Humanity to a Venerable Myth
United States Monteverdi, L’Orfeo: Soloists, Apollo’s Singers, Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell (conductor), Kulas Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio, 13.4.2018. (MSJ)
A Suk Rarity Expresses an Avalanche of Grief
United States Brahms, Suk: Sergey Khachatryan (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 7.4.2018. (MSJ)
Rare Poulenc Precedes an Old (and Chatty) Friend
United States Poulenc, Rachmaninoff: Jory Vinokour (harpsichord), Cleveland Orchestra / Stéphane Denève (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 25.03.2018 (MSJ)
The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2018-19 Season
The Cleveland Orchestra Announces Its 2018-19 Season
On 11 December 1918, the Cleveland Orchestra gave its first concert, under the direction of its founding music director, Nikolai Sokoloff. As the ensemble embarks on its second century, the Orchestra has announced a lively season to mark the occasion. Franz Welser-Möst, the ensemble’s seventh music director, will oversee a year of audience-pleasing favorites mixed with enterprising new works and neglected classics.
A Rare Sighting of Elgar’s Second Symphony
United States Beethoven, Elgar: Yefim Bronfman (piano), the Cleveland Orchestra / Nikolaj Znaider (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. 2.3.2018. (MSJ)