The Cleveland Orchestra’s online presence grows stronger

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, conducting Mahler 2 (1888-94/1895-1910) with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, featuring mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux and soprano Lauren Snouffer as soloists. © Roger Mastroianni, courtesy of the Cleveland Orchestra During the pandemic, the Cleveland Orchestra launched two substantial initiatives in reaching out to audiences beyond the ensembles’s gorgeous Severance Hall home base....

Remarkable El Niño with John Adams conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Choruses, featuring an extraordinary cast

John Adams conducting El Ninõ (1999-2000) with the Cleveland Orchestra and Choruses, with soprano Lauren Snouffer, mezzo-soprano Josefina Maldonado, bass-baritone Davóne Tines and contertenors Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings and Nathan Medley as soloists. © Roger Mastroianni, courtesy of the Cleveland Orchestra Conceived as a herald for the new millennium, John Adams’s nativity oratorio El Niño...

Championing the cimbalom in American music – interview with Chester Englander

Chester Englander performing John Adams's Scheherazade.2 (2014) with the Cleveland Orchestra in November 2018. © Roger Mastroianni “Chester has done more to bring the cimbalom to the awareness of American listeners than anyone I know of. His unique combination of superb musicianship and curiosity for new ideas makes him an ideal collaborator for us composers....

Album review: Top-tier Strauss disc from The Cleveland Orchestra and Welser-Möst

Although there are plenty of recordings of Richard Strauss’s tone poems in the market, few currently available measure up to the outstanding quality of the wonderful new album by The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, released on the orchestra’s own label.  Three works are included in the album, two best-loved classics, Don Juan,...