Cleveland Orchestra epitomizes title words in new ‘Style and Craft’ Adella episode
Updated May 07, 12:22 PM;
Posted May 07, 12:22 PM
On the 10th In Focus series episode, Cleveland Orchestra oboist Frank Rosenwein and pianist Carolyn Gadiel Warner perform Ravel s Sonatine. TRoger Mastroianni
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CLEVELAND, Ohio –There’s nothing dry about the Cleveland Orchestra’s latest “In Focus” series episode.
The title, “Style and Craft,” suggests an erudite lesson, but the pair of works by Ravel and Britten released on the Adella platform Thursday night from Severance Hall is in fact openly lush and elegant, anything but academic.
The Ravel, certainly, is warm and intimate. In a treat attributable to these unusual times, principal oboe Frank Rosenwein joins pianist Carolyn Gadiel Warner in a bright, refreshing performance of Ravel’s Sonatine, an early work originally conceived for solo piano.
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor
Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s
Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s
Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brian Jagde, Ambrogio Maestri, Zoryana Kushpler, and Isabel Signoret; Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Giovannini, and Sergey Kaydalov. Production from November 2020. Register for free and view here.
Cleveland Orchestra reveals its humanity in ongoing ‘On a Personal Note’ podcast series
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
The Cleveland Orchestra s podcast series On a Personal Note has proven to be a trove of insights, even to a listener professionally focused on the orchestra.
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They make mistakes. They get nervous. They suffer major setbacks.
They also feel joy, love, and pride, along with every other emotion of everyday life.
This is the takeaway from the podcast series “On a Personal Note,” the orchestra’s first substantial new offering during the pandemic: the music we hear at Severance Hall comes not from some vacuum but from deeply personal places, and often means far more than what simply meets the ears.