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Fury and finesse from Nikita Mndoyants & the Canton Symphony Orchestra (Feb. 25)

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by Tom Wachunas

MndoyantsThe three works on the February 25 program from the Canton Symphony Orchestra couldn’t have been more diverse in emotive content. The Overture from Camille Saint-Saëns’ light-hearted operetta, La Princesse jaune (The Yellow Princess) ranks among the composers’ most charming if not most often neglected creations. Projecting an infectious exuberance, the orchestra successfully delivered all of the work’s breezy melodies and delightful rhythms imbued with a distinctly Japanese ethereality. [Read more…]

Baldwin Wallace Opera Theater: Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites (Feb. 24)

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by Daniel Hathaway

Dialogues_3aFrancis Poulenc’s inspiring and disturbing story of the sixteen Carmelite nuns of Compiègne who perished at the guillotine in 1794 during Robespierre’s Reign of Terror during the French Revolution received a laudable performance by Baldwin Wallace Opera Theater on Friday, February 24. [Read more…]

Cleveland Orchestra with Matthias Pintscher and pianist Cédric Tiberghien (Feb. 23)

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by Daniel Hathaway

CLO022317_077_select-for-mediaJet lag, Egypt, the long gestation of a new musical language, and the Sea — these disparate elements all had something to do with inspiring the four wildly different pieces that guest conductor Matthias Pintscher brought to Severance Hall on Thursday evening, February 23. If there were few connections to be made between those works, each of them inspired brilliant, committed performances from The Cleveland Orchestra. [Read more…]

Cleveland Orchestra: Schubert & Mahler with Runnicles, Groves & DeYoung (Feb. 9)

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by Neil McCalmont

De-Yonge-GrovesThe sounds of German Romanticism filled Severance Hall on Thursday, February 9, as guest conductor Donald Runnicles led The Cleveland Orchestra in Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in b, “Unfinished,” and Mahler’s epic song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde. [Read more…]

Cleveland Orchestra with Xian Zhang and Katia & Marielle Labèque (Feb. 16)

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by Daniel Hathaway

MozartTCO021617Two rarely-heard works, a duo-piano team making a reappearance after a long hiatus, and a guest conductor who stepped in for an ailing maestro at the last minute to save the scheduled program — all these elements promised more than a little suspense last Thursday evening, February 16 in The Cleveland Orchestra’s concert at Severance Hall. [Read more…]

Organist Emmanuel Arakélian at the Cleveland Museum of Art (February 19)

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by Timothy Robson

Arakelian-EmmanuelFrench organist Emmanuel Arakélian made his local debut on Sunday afternoon, February 19 at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium. The Avignon native, born in 1991, is currently studying organ with Olivier Latry and Michel Bouvard at the Paris Conservatory. His Cleveland program featured an intriguing mix of well-known standards and transcriptions, as well as a new work by the young French composer Grégoire Rolland. [Read more…]

Cleveland Chamber Music Society: Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (Feb. 8)

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by Mike Telin

BerlinWindsRoshakIf you follow the stream of distinguished chamber music ensembles that tour Northeast Ohio each year, you get the feeling that many of them are making the area their second home. However, when the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet made their fifth appearance on the Cleveland Chamber Music Society series on February 8, their splendid, refined performance made you wish they would come through town more often. [Read more…]

Apollo’s Fire: “Virtuoso Bach” in Rocky River (February 19)

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by Robert Rollin

NAGY-DebraThis past week Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s Baroque orchestra conducted by Jeannette Sorrell, presented five performances of its “Virtuoso Bach” program. Sunday afternoon’s performance at Rocky River Presbyterian Church benefitted visually from the church’s lovely setting, but the high ceiling and wide space created a rather muddy acoustic that at times affected the clarity of sound. [Read more…]

Tri-C Classical Piano Series: Gavin George at CMA (Feb. 12)

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by Daniel Hathaway

Gavin-GeorgeGranville, OH native Gavin George first appeared on the Tri-C Classical Piano Series in November of 2014 at the age of eleven. He returned to Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Sunday afternoon, February 12, now thirteen, several inches taller, and even more mature and nuanced in his playing than before — and before was jaw-droppingly impressive. [Read more…]

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