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Yuja Wang and The Cleveland Orchestra serve an iridescent musical feast

Yuja Wang and The Cleveland Orchestra
© Yevhen Gulenko, courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra
Petr Popelka, Yuja Wang and The Cleveland Orchestra
© Yevhen Gulenko, courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra
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“each element clicking into place like a Swiss watch”
Reviewed at Severance Music Center: Mandel Concert Hall, Cleveland on 28 November 2025
Ravel, Piano Concerto in D major for the left hand
Ligeti, Piano Concerto
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Mendelssohn, Song without words in F sharp minor, Op.67 no.2
Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 in C minor "Malinconia", Op.110: Allegro molto (trans. Giltburg)
Yuja Wang, Piano
The Cleveland Orchestra
Petr Popelka, Conductor
Barbara Hannigan surveys American voices with The Cleveland Orchestra
***11
The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall: symphonic extremes
*****
A study in control and proportion: the Clevelanders’ Verdi Requiem
****1
An uneven symphonic pairing from Franz Welser-Möst in Cleveland
***11
Gripping, somber Mahler 6 from Sokhiev and The Cleveland Orchestra
****1
Franz-Welser Möst leads a profound Cleveland Orchestra pairing
*****
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