by Robert Rollin
Last Saturday night at Blossom, The Cleveland Orchestra, under French guest conductor Stéphane Denève, presented a lively, varied, and interesting concert of Russian and German music. The evening’s highlight was Robert Schumann’s A Minor Piano Concerto, Op. 56 sensitively performed by talented British pianist Paul Lewis. Successful as a soloist with many of the world’s great orchestras, as a recitalist, and as a recording artist for the Harmonia Mundi label, Lewis tossed off the difficult passagework with the elegant grace obtainable only through major professional experience.