Yuja Wang serves an iridescent musical feast in Cleveland

Yuja Wang and The Cleveland Orchestra

Petr Popelka, Yuja Wang and The Cleveland Orchestra

Por Sam Jacobson, 29 noviembre 2025

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“each element clicking into place like a Swiss watch”

Crítica hecha desde Severance Music Center: Mandel Concert Hall, Cleveland el 28 noviembre 2025

Ravel, Concierto para piano en re mayor para la mano izquierda

Ligeti, Concierto para piano

Musorgskiï, Cuadros de una exposición (orch. Ravel)

Mendelssohn, Song without words in F sharp minor, Op.67 no.2

Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 in C minor "Malinconia", Op.110: Allegro molto (trans. Giltburg)

Yuja Wang, Piano

The Cleveland Orchestra

Petr Popelka, Dirección

From a ‘classical‘ symphony to Götterdämmerung in Cleveland

Sam Jacobson, 7th May

Franz Welser-Möst leads a program reflective of the artistic threads that have defined his Cleveland tenure: Prokofiev, contemporary Austrian music and Wagner.

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Barbara Hannigan surveys American voices with The Cleveland Orchestra

Sam Jacobson, 14th February

Works by Crumb, Ruggles, Barber and Gershwin offer four distinct ideas of what American music can sound like in Barbara Hannigan’s explorative Cleveland Orchestra program.

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The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall: symphonic extremes

Sam Jacobson, 21st January

Following a polished account of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, Shostakovich’s Eleventh erupted with visceral force, as Franz Welser-Möst led The Cleveland Orchestra in a performance of gripping intensity.

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A study in control and proportion: the Clevelanders’ Verdi Requiem

Edward Sava-Segal, 20th January

Asmik Grigorian leads a strong quartet of soloists and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus shape the performance at Carnegie Hall.

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An uneven symphonic pairing from Franz Welser-Möst in Cleveland

Frank Kuznik, 10th January

Mozart and Shostakovich make an uncomfortable fit in a program designed to highlight their differences.

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Gripping, somber Mahler 6 from Sokhiev and The Cleveland Orchestra

Sam Jacobson, 13th November

Tugan Sokhiev memorably debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra to lead a recent concerto for English horn and Mahler’s Tragic.

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Sam Jacobson

Sam Jacobson has been writing for Bachtrack since 2015 and is currently in Pittsburgh, having previously lived throughout the Midwest. A keen traveler, he endeavors to see all the great orchestras and opera houses across the US and abroad. Outside of music, he works as a software engineer. He also maintains a blog which can be read here.

Yuja Wang and The Cleveland Orchestra serve an iridescent musical feast