| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 27-Apr-2013 Severance Hall | Admired, not loved: The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus in Haydn's The Seasons |
 Are there musical works, even pieces generally considered to be masterpieces, that no longer can catch the listening public’s interest, no matter how expertly they are performed?Read full review... | |
| 3-Mar-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Berg and Bruckner from the Vienna Philharmonic on tour in New York |
.jpg) Franz Welser-Möst misses few opportunities to declare his affinity with Anton Bruckner. The conductor, after all, is from Linz in Upper Austria, and Bruckner was born twelve decades earlier in a village just outside the same town. From London to Vienna, Welser-Möst has believed it necessary consciously to advocate for Bruckner’s music. He has even gone as far as dubbing him the “grandfather of minimalism”, to explain pairing his symphonies with the works of John Adams in a recent Cleveland Orchestra residency at Carnegie Hall.
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| 19-Jan-2013 Severance Hall | Widmann, Bartók and Beethoven with Joshua Bell and The Cleveland Orchestra |
 Severance Hall was packed this weekend for a rare appearance by violinist Joshua Bell with the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst conducting. There should have been no disappointment; the concert was brilliantly executed from beginning to end. This review is based on the performance of Saturday, 19 January.
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| 13-Nov-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Beethoven, Pintscher and Scriabin from Welser-Möst and the Clevelanders at Carnegie Hall |
 Franz Welser-Möst’s programme was rather eclectic for this Carnegie Hall visit from the Cleveland Orchestra. Matthias Pintscher’s static, ethereal new work, Chute d’Étoiles (“Falling Stars”), found itself sandwiched between two of Beethoven’s busiest works, the Fourth Symphony and the Grosse Fuge, both of which are in the key of B flat major. Scriabin’s heady Le poème de l’extase then played coda to an already long concert. Trying to work out the connection between the four? So am I.
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