Classical Concert Reviews Cinci

@mayfestivalcincy celebrated the art of communal music making with a rare treat gracing the stage of @musichallcincy – a full concert by the May Festival’s choruses in collaboration with the @cincyboychoir. With a program of mostly contemporary music, including a world premiere commission, it was wonderful and moving to see…

@cincysymphony closed out February 2025 with a concert featuring one of the greatest violinists working today, Gil Shaham, tackling one of the most under-appreciated concertos in the repertoire by Antonín Dvořák.Under the direction of John Storgårds, chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, England, the concert opened with the…

@uc_ccm’s undergraduate Opera d’Arte program celebrated its 30th anniversary with a fun and invigorating production of Engelbert Humperdink’s opera Hänsel und Gretel, under the leadership of director Kenneth Shaw and conductor Brett Scott. A more lighthearted take on the eponymous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it featured a relatively…

Oh what a joyous day it is to officially welcome maestro Cristian Măcelaru (@cristian.macelaru) into Cincinnati’s classical music community as the newest music director designate of @cincysymphony with a program of music old and new, popular and obscure headlined by Antonin Dvořák’s New World Symphony.The concert opened with a vibrant…

@cincysymphony continued its slate of concerts for winter 2025 with a program pairing works by two giants of 20th-century music, Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy, under the direction of German-born guest conductor Jun MärklThe program opened with an invigorating, bouncy performance of what may be Strauss’s wittiest tone poem, Till…

@uc_ccm’s Philharmonia opened its spring 2025 semester of performances with a program titled Wishful Thinking, pairing two uniquely different orchestral takes on the theme of spring. The first came in the form of Schumann’s ‘Spring’ Symphony (No. 1, written in 1841). The Philharmonia’s performance was wonderfully ebullient and wistful, in…

@cincysymphony continued its slate of concerts for January 2025 with a beautiful program titled The Magic Cello, pairing new and old works based on fairy tales with one of the most well-known cello concertos of the 19th century.The new fairy tales came in the form of a world premiere symphony,…

@cincysymphony opened its slate of concerts for January 2025 with a ravishing program headlined by two masterworks of the twentieth-century classical repertoire by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Aaron Copland led by frequent guest conductor Matthias Pintscher, newly-appointed music director of the Kansas City Symphony.subito con forza, a new score by South…

@vaecinci rang in the Christmas season with a welcome return of its annual Candlelit Christmas concert in the visual and acoustical splendor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel which is part of the campus of Summit Country Day School. Guest conductor Matthew Swanson, direct of choruses for the Cincinnati May…

An amazing performance of Benedict Sheehan’s setting of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to round out a music-filled day. A specially-selected chorus of 20 singers, full of friends old and new, tackled Sheehan’s challenging yet engaging writing with grace, agility and excitement. As narrator, Rebecca Kuch brought this story to…