Fate and freedom: Cleveland Orchestra and Welser-Möst at Carnegie Hall

Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra in Carnegie Hall

Por Susan Stempleski, 20 marzo 2025

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“as people fight for freedom everywhere, these pieces tell the same human story”

Crítica hecha desde Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, Nueva York el 18 marzo 2025

Beethoven, Sinfonía núm. 5 en do menor, Op.67

Janáček, From the House of the Dead: instrumental suite (arr. František Jílek)

Beethoven, Obertura Leonora, núm. 3, Op.72b

The Cleveland Orchestra

Franz Welser-Möst, Dirección musical, 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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Yuja Wang serves an iridescent musical feast in Cleveland

Sam Jacobson, 28th November

Yuja Wang does double duty in demanding piano concertos by Ravel and Ligeti, while conductor Petr Popelka shows his chemistry with the orchestra in Pictures at an Exhibition.

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Susan Stempleski

Based in New York City, Susan is a retired specialist in second and foreign language teaching and the author/editor of several professional books for language teachers and many widely used textbooks for English language learners around the world. An avid concertgoer, she spends her time attending operas and other classical music events in New York and Paris. Since 2002, she has regularly published reviews on Classical Source. A keen Francophile, she has a particularly strong interest in French music, literature and film.

Fate and freedom: Beethoven and Janáček from Cleveland and Welser-Möst at Carnegie Hall