by Mike Telin
Autumn is a magical time of year in Cleveland, and there couldn’t be a better place to experience the season’s natural splendor than Lake View Cemetery. And while you’re there, why not take in a concert featuring music by J.S. Bach in the magnificent Jeptha Wade Memorial Chapel, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and completed in 1901.
On Monday, November 3 beginning at 4:00 pm, musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra will perform some of the composer’s greatest masterworks in a 3-part Bach-a-thon.
The first concert at 4:00 pm begins with the “Prelude” from Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello performed by Tanya Ell-Woolfrey. Georg Philipp Telemann’s Fantasies for Solo Flute with Mary Kay Fink follow, and the concert will conclude with an arrangement for string trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky of the “Goldberg Variations” played by violinist Isabel Trautwein, violist Joanna Zakany, and cellist Tanya Ell-Woolfrey.
At 5:00 pm the second concert will feature young artist Nathaniel Hill (Cleveland Institute of Music) and Noémie Chemali (Stony Brook University). Hill will perform the Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat arranged for solo guitar, and Chemali will play the “Prelude” from Suite No. 5, in an arrangement for solo viola. To round out the program, Jason Yu will be featured in Bach’s E-major Violin Concerto accompanied by Mari Sato and Isabel Trautwein (violins) Noémie Chemali (viola), and Tanya Ell-Woolfrey (cello).
On the third concerto at 6:00 pm, the Blossom Quartet — Stephen Tavani and Yun-Tin Lee (violins) William Bender (viola), and Dane Johansen (cello) — will play Bach’s final work, The Art of Fugue, with spoken commentary.
You can purchase tickets to one, two, or all three of the 45-minute concerts here.
Published on ClevelandClassical.com October 2, 2025.
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