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A second roll of the dice in Hamburg for Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra

Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra
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The Cleveland Orchestra in the Elbphilharmonie
© Daniel Dittus
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“despite the conductor’s Viennese connections, there was not that much warmth”
Reviewed at Elbphilharmonie: Grand Hall, Hamburg on 1 September 2022
Rihm, Verwandlung 3, music for orchestra
Rihm, Verwandlung 2, music for orchestra
Schubert, Symphony no. 9 in C major, "The Great", D.944
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, 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
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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