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Brett Mitchell steps in for ailing Cleveland maestro in Britten’s Spring Symphony

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Reviewed at Severance Music Center: Mandel Concert Hall, Cleveland on 8 March 2014
Sibelius, Lemminkäinen's Return, Op.22 no.4
Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor for piano and orchestra, Op.43
Wigglesworth, Locke's Theatre
Britten, Spring Symphony for soloists, mixed choir, children's choir and orchestra, Op.44
The Cleveland Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, Conductor
Rudolf Buchbinder, Piano
Kate Royal, Soprano
Jamie Barton, Mezzo-soprano
John Tessier, Tenor
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
The Cleveland Orchestra Children's Chorus
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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