by Daniel Hathaway
Three multi-concert series will launch tonight.
At 7:30, pianist Garrick Ohlsson, replacing Igor Levit, joins Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, and the Orchestra fills out the program with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, “Romantic” (repeated through Sunday afternoon).
At the same hour, Annunziata Tomaro leads CityMusic Cleveland in Max Richter’s The Four Seasons Recomposed (after A. Vivaldi) with violin soloist Laura Hamilton at Fairmount Presbyterian (repeated in different venues through Sunday afternoon.
And at 8 pm, Oberlin Opera Theater stages Claudio Monteverdi’s 1605 L’Orfeo in Hall Auditorium, directed by Stephanie Havey with an orchestra of period instruments led by Christian Capocaccia. There are four performances through Sunday afternoon.
For details, visit our Concert Listings.
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The Cleveland Orchestra reports that concertmaster David Radzynski has stepped down “by mutual decision” effective March 3. Read the press release here. [Read more…]