by Daniel Hathaway
This article was originally published on Cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A small but wildly enthusiastic crowd showed up at Severance Music Center on Friday to hear a recital by Russian pianist Polina Osetinskaya that marked her Cleveland debut and that of Domus Virtuosa, a new artist agency and production initiative founded by Clevelander Svetlana Stolyarova.
Not your usual piano recital, Osetinskaya’s program was entirely devoted to transcriptions — or arrangements — of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.