Classical Concert Reviews Cinci

@collegium_cincy presented its annual performance of George Frederic Handel’s oratorio Messiah to a sold-out audience at Cincinnati’s beautiful Christ Church Cathedral (@christchurchcathedralcincy under the leadership of its artistic director, Matthew Phelps and featuring 16 of the best local solo and choral singers, including some new faces who sang this masterpiece…

@qcccincy presented its holiday program A Cozy Christmas at @thecarnegie featuring many of the most well-known Christmas songs to come from the 1940s and ‘50s along with some lesser known tunes that many people might have heard for the first time this evening.Using a format modeled on the Christmas special…

@uc_ccm’s Philharmonia concluded its fall 2024 semester of concerts with a program featuring some of the great German orchestral masterworks of the 19th century, headlined by an appearance by guest conductor Guido Rumstadt, professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Musikhochschule in Nuremberg, Germany.Student conductor Moyue Zhou opened the program in…

@cincysymphony offered a pre-Thanksgiving treat with this weekend’s program featuring old and new Spanish treasures and a scintillating performance of one of Beethoven’s most popular concertos.Tèenek – Invenciones de Territorio by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz (@gabrielaortizcomposer) was a wonderfully inventive score to open tonight’s concert, drawing musical inspiration from the…

@sevenhillsbaroque presented the first in a series of converts under the title The Four Elements exploring the theme of Earth in the beautiful space that is First Lutheran Church in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Opening with the concerto ‘Les Sauvages’ by Michel Corette, an almost direct contemporary of Bach, Vivaldi and…

@cincysymphony continued its 2024-25 season with an outstanding performance of two masterworks of the 20th century by Leonard Bernstein and Dmitri Shostakovich led by one of the true giants of the conducting world, Marin Alsop, making a return appearance to Cincinnati following her sensational debut with the May Festival in…

@voxveritatischoir presented its first official solo concert with a program built around themes of mental health and social justice. While the concert itself contained an unusually small amount of repertoire, the amount of pure talent on the stage of Heart of Northside more than made up for it.The program opened…

@cincysymphony continued its fall slate of concerts as part of its 2024-25 season with a return appearance by the legendary conductor Marek Janowski to perform to masterpieces of the late 18th and late 19th century.The orchestra opened with a vibrant, scintillatingly elegant reading of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 39.…

@uc_ccm opened its 2024-25 MainStage opera season with a hilarious production of an otherwise little-known work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, La Finta giardiniera. First performed in Munich in 1775, the opera explores themes of misdirected love, disguises and mistaken identity, all told in a very comic way.CcM’s new production sets…

@cincinnatifusionensemble presented its fall 2024 Martin Memorial Program with an eclectic mix of contemporary choral works headlined by a guest conducting appearance by the legendary Mack Wilberg, director of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.With a program drawing primarily from the catalogs of Helvey and Wilberg, it was definitely one…