Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra and their newly promoted Assistant Conductor Vinay Paraneswaran shed light on the musical pattern-making of the minimalists. And Bach.

Familiar works by Bach, Handel and Corelli were enhanced by a fine performance of Mendelssohn's rarely played String Symphony no. 7.

Music of Haydn and Bartók made for a brief but contrasting Cleveland Orchestra program, the former bringing back regular guest Emanuel Ax.

Yefim Bronfman returned to Severance Hall for Schnittke’s intriguing Concerto for Piano and Strings, followed by a Beethoven quartet recast for string orchestra.

The familiar qualities of blend and precision were in evidence in familiar works by Respighi and Tchaikovsky, as well as George Walker's thorny but arresting Antifonys. 

Franz Welser-Möst returned to his home orchestra in a program of works by Křenek and Mendelssohn, as starkly contrasting as they are infrequently heard.