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Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra Children's Chorus

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Mäkelä guides Cleveland Orchestra through monumental Mahler

Klaus Mäkelä conducts The Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni, courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä helms Mahler’s Third Symphony, the composer’s longest work, in a journey to remember with inspired playing from instrumentalists and vocalists alike. 
*****
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Jakub Hrůša leads TCO in John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls

A brilliant programming decision paired Adams’s 9/11 memorial with Mahler’s life-affirming Symphony no. 4, with the fine soprano Joelle Harvey as soloist.
***11
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Carmina Burana at Blossom: A new look at an old friend

A fresh and compelling performance of Carl Orff’s classic. Aaron Copland’s rarely-performed Statements filled out the orchestra’s last concert performance at the Blossom Music Festival for 2018.
****1
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Cleveland Orchestra opens 100th season with a stunning Cunning Little Vixen

The Cleveland Orchestra’s centennial season was off to an auspicious start with an encore presentation of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen.
*****
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The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst capture Mahler’s sound world in his Symphony No. 3

Mezzo-soprano Kelly O’Connor proves herself a sensitive and dark-hued soloist, with fine support from the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.
****1
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A memorable Damnation of Faust in Cleveland

Paul Groves, Sir Willard White and Ruxandra Donose are the top-flight principals, with excellent support from the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.
*****
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