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A concerto for two violas marks Christoph von Dohnányi's return to Cleveland

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“Dohnányi... trusted the orchestra to listen to what they were doing”
Reviewed at Severance Music Center: Mandel Concert Hall, Cleveland on 19 November 2015
Smetana, The Bartered Bride: Overture
Sortomme, Concerto for Two Violas (on themes from Smetana's "From My Life" Quartet)
Schubert, Symphony no. 9 in C major, "The Great", D.944
The Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, Conductor
Robert Vernon, Viola
Lynne Ramsey, Viola
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
Yuja Wang serves an iridescent musical feast in Cleveland
****1
Gripping, somber Mahler 6 from Sokhiev and The Cleveland Orchestra
****1
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