An uneven symphonic pairing from Franz Welser-Möst in Cleveland

Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra

Por Frank Kuznik, 11 enero 2026

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“as an invocation of a specific time and place it was brilliant”

Crítica hecha desde Severance Music Center: Mandel Concert Hall, Cleveland el 10 enero 2026

Mozart, Sinfonía núm. 41 en do mayor "Júpiter", K551

Shostakovich, Sinfonía núm. 11 en sol menor "El año 1905", op. 103

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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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****1

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****1

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Franz-Welser Möst leads a profound Cleveland Orchestra pairing

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The Cleveland Orchestra couples a war-torn symphony of Arthur Honegger with Gustav Mahler’s sublime orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde.

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.