"Fantastic Tales" come to life at Chamberfest Cleveland

Adam Golka, Annie Jacobs-Perkins, Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez, Oliver Herbert and Roman Rabinovich

Bridget Kibbey

By Frank Kuznik, 17 June 2024

Loading, please wait...

See full listing

“swirling motions, dark textures and slashing lines that presage Bernard Hermann’s score for Psycho”

Reviewed at Cleveland Institute of Music: Mixon Hall, Cleveland on 15 June 2024

Schumann, Andante and Variations for horn, two cellos and two pianos, WoO10

Caplet, Conte fantastique

Korngold, Piano Quintet in E major, Op.15

Bridget Kibbey, Harp

Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez, French horn

Diana Cohen, Violin

Alexi Kenney, Violin

Joseph Lin, Violin

Paul Neubauer, Viola

Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Viola

Oliver Herbert, Cello

Annie Jacobs-Perkins, Cello

Adam Golka, Piano

Roman Rabinovich, Piano

Brett Dean's Epitaphs: scintillating sorrow at Chamberfest Cleveland

Frank Kuznik, 27th June

Lively performances offer fresh perspectives on elegies old and new in the penultimate ChamberFest Cleveland concert.

****1

A ChamberFest Cleveland premiere offers a powerful lament

Frank Kuznik, 20th June

Contemporary programming at this year's festival brings a sensitive social issue close to home, culminating in Judith Markovich's “Oh, my son…”

***11

Paradise lost and found in Cleveland

Frank Kuznik, 21st June

An idiosyncratic outing at Chamberfest Cleveland recounts original sin in ragtime and finds redemption in a neglected wartime masterpiece.

****1

Music for star-crossed lovers with Ludovic Morlot and the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 2nd December

Ludovic Morlot conducts the RSNO in a relationship that blossoms into love... eventually.

***11

Hungarian flair at ChamberFest Cleveland

Sam Jacobson, 25th June

ChamberFest Cleveland’s Hungarian evening traversed works of Liszt, Eötvös, and Dohnányi, alongside Brahms’ apt Hungarian Dances.

****1

Songful Schumann from Sir Roger Norrington and the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 20th October

Norrington's Schumann cycle with the RSNO begins convincingly.

****1

More reviews...

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.