Classical Concert Reviews Cinci

@uc_ccm concluded its official season of opera performances in its 2023-24 academic year with an emotionally stirring and enthralling performance of Daniel Catán’s Rappaccini’s Daughter (La hija de Rappaccini). Based on a play by the Spanish writer Octavio Paz, itself based on a short story written in 1844 by Nathaniel…

It’s always a treat to see Krista Cornish Scott (@crunchy.kj) conduct as part of the regular concert season for Collegium Cincinnati (@collegium_cincy) but it is equally exciting to see her and her husband, Brett Scott, conduct together for the first time in a program of Baroque music for Lent and…

@cincysymphony continued the its 2023-24 season with electrifying performances of two late-romantic German masterworks paired with a bouncy and fun piano concerto by Mozart. Under the direction of guest conductor Sir Mark Elder, outgoing music director of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England, the CSO opened with the overture to…

@cincysymphony welcomed the start of spring at Music Hall with a program spanning three centuries built on celebrating the season. Under guest conductor Matthias Pintscher, a former creative partner with the CSO, the orchestra began with an emorice, bouncy and strong reading of the orchestral suite from Aaron Copland’s ballet…

@vaecinci concluded its 2023-24 concert season at Christ Church Cathedral Cincinnati with an absolutely gorgeous performance of what may be considered Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpiece, his Mass in B Minor. Among the most performed works in all of Western choral literature, it is not a wholly original composition by Bach…

@uc_ccm concluded its 2023-24 MainStage opera series with a gorgeous new production of what is perhaps Leoš Janáček’s most lighthearted opera, The Cunning Little Vixen (Příhody lišky Bystroušky). Based on a novella by Rudolf Těsnohlídek first published as a newspaper comic strip in 1920, the opera tells of the antics…

@cincysymphony continued its Proof series of concerts as part of the 2023-24 season with a rare performance of Des Canyons aux étoiles.. (From the Canyons to the Stars), one of Olivier Messiaen’s most significant large-scale orchestral works. Commissioned by the American philanthropist Alice Tully in 1971 to celebrate the United…

@uc_ccm’s Undergratuate Opera Program presented its spring 2024 offering of a fun, wonderfully zany production of Mozart’s comic masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro. Under the direction of Brett Scott, the student cast featured in this evening’s performance was a wonderful demonstration of all the rising young talents that CCM has…

St. Peter in Chains Cathedral Basilica (@cathedral_basilica_cincinnati), one of the most beautiful and impressive spaces for the performance of sacred music in Cincinnati, opened its newest Great Music in a Great Space concert series this evening with an absolutely magical program of chants by perhaps the most famous name in…

It’s not often that one gets to hear the May Festival Chorus give a solo concert that is outside of the regular May Festival (@mayfestivalcincy) season. But they brought compelling artistry and vivid musicianship to a program at Christ Church Cathedral (@christchurchcathedralcincy) featuring Maurice Duruflé’s immortal Requiem and a new…