In Cleveland, a politically fraught St John Passion

Par Frank Kuznik, 11 mars 2017

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Critique faite à Severance Music Center: Mandel Concert Hall, Cleveland, le 9 mars 2017

Bach, Passion selon saint Jean, BWV245

Maximilian Schmitt, Ténor

Andrew Foster-Williams, Basse

Lauren Snouffer, Soprano

Iestyn Davies, Contre-ténor

Nicholas Phan, Ténor

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

The Cleveland Orchestra

Franz Welser-Möst, Direction

Cleveland et Franz Welser-Möst en hérauts des temps passés

Julien Hanck, 16th October

Ces dernières années, on a surtout entendu Mahler sculpté par des baguettes démiurges : celles de Rattle, de Nézet-Séguin ou de Harding. Toutes ces lectures paraîtraient outrancières face à celle que proposait Franz Welser-Möst et l'Orchestre de Cleveland à la Philharmonie.

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Brahms à la Salle Pleyel

Luca Dupont-Spirio, 20th September

Arrivés à Paris pour l'avant-dernière étape de leur tournée européenne, Franz Welser-Möst et l'Orchestre de Cleveland ont interprété Brahms avec une précision aussi intimidante que remarquable.

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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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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.