by Daniel Hathaway

Poland was much in evidence at Severance Hall on Thursday evening, April 21, when Polish guest conductor Antoni Wit led The Cleveland Orchestra in Richard Wagner’s Polonia Overture and Frédéric Chopin’s f-minor piano concerto with Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki (the son of Polish parents). Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony may have been the outlier, thematically, but it ended the evening on similar notes of proud dignity. [Read more…]