United States 2022 Blossom Music Festival [2]: Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. (MSJ)
A brilliant Blossom Music Festival hosts debuts for Reinhardt, Kenney and Bacewicz
Mark S. Jordan
Dramatic favorites take flight at Cleveland’s Blossom Festival
United States Blossom Music Festival 2022 [1] – Various: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Elim Chan (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 9.7.2022. (MSJ)
Festival programs in Cleveland open doors to other worlds
United States Breaking Convention: Programs 1 and 2: Nicole Cabell (soprano), Iveta Apkalna (organ), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, Ohio, 27 and 28.5.2022. (MSJ)
Pulliam and Maltman make star turns in Cleveland in Welser-Möst’s breathtakingly focused Otello
United States Verdi, Otello (concert version): Soloists, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Children’s Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall, Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 21.5.2022. (MSJ)
A radiant Schubert ‘Great C major’ in Cleveland
United States Berg, Rihm, Schubert: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 12.5.2022. (MSJ)
Apollo’s Fire celebrates their thirtieth anniversary at Severance with works by Mozart and Bologne
United States Mozart, Bologne: Sonya Headlam (soprano), Francisco Fullana (violin), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 7.4.2022. (MSJ)
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and Klaus Mäkelä revel in Cleveland
United States Sibelius, Shostakovich: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 21.4.2022. (MSJ)
The Crossing premieres a powerful new work by Stacy Garrop in Cleveland
United States Various: Scott Dettra (organ), The Crossing / Donald Nally (conductor). Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 25.3.2022. (MSJ)
