Mark S. Jordan

Impressive Blossom debut by Antonello Manacorda, joined by a vivid Véronique Gens

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United StatesUnited 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)

Antonello Manacorda conducts Véronique Gens in her Cleveland Orchestra debut © Roger Mastroianni/CO

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Hindoyan makes his Cleveland debut in an engaging Russian program at Blossom

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United StatesUnited 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)

Michael Sachs and the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni/CO

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Lang Lang and the Clevelanders make Saint-Saëns and Berlioz (and the occasional Muppet) blaze with life

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United StatesUnited States Saint Saëns, Berlioz, ‘Lang Lang Plays Saint-Saëns’: Lang Lang (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 2.5.2024. (MSJ)

Lang Lang and Franz Welser-Möst after Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No.2 © Roger Mastroianni/Cleveland Orchestra

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Trenchant Elgar versus flashy Walton in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States López Ballido, Elgar, Walton: Sol Gabetta (cello), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (chorus director: Lisa Wong), Cleveland Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 13.4.2024. (MSJ)

Sol Gabetta in Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni

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Apollo’s Fire burns darkly in a program of Hispanic music

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United StatesUnited States Various, ‘¡Hispania! A voyage from Spain to the Americas’: Sophia Burgos, Andréa Walker (sopranos), Alan Choo, Emi Tanabe (violins), Jeremías García (guitar), Sandi Bohl (castanets), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor and harpsichord). St. Bernard Catholic Church, Akron, 20.3.2024. (MSJ)

[front l-r] Andréa Walker, Jeannette Sorrell and Sophia Burgos after the opening night performance © Apollo’s Fire

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Franz Welser-Möst returns to Cleveland, sounding ‘Frankly Wiser Than Most’

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United StatesUnited States Krenek, Mahler, Bartók: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Liivestreamed on adella.com from the Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 13.1.2024. (MSJ)

Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Cleveland Orchestra in the livestream

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