Classical Concert Reviews Cinci

@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…

mayfestivalcincy closed out its 150th anniversary season with what was arguably the finest performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand to grace the stage of @musichallcincy in years. Under the passionate and incredibly high-spirited leadership of music director laureate James Conlon (stepping in for an indisposed Juano Mena, in…

@cincinnatiopera continued its 103rd season with a riotous performance of Gioacchino Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). Perhaps the most popular of Rossini’s operas, it is full of tuneful Melodie’s that have become engrained in popular culture in the 200+ years since its first performance in 1816.The…

chambermuscincy closed out 2023 with a return appearance by pianist Michelle Cann (@michelleacann) for a program built around an overarching theme of storytelling In music, highlighting in particular the works of composers such as Joel Thompson and William Grant Still (his 1933 suite A Deserted Plantation).Opening with a winsome, rewarding…

@uc_ccm and @ccm_choralstudies rang in the Christmas season with its annual Feast of Carols concert, with performances drawn from ensembles across the campus of the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Youth Choir in a breezy 90 minutes of music, all under the guidance of director of choral studies Joe…

The Jazz at Memo series at Memorial Hall (@memorialhallotr) continued to ring in the Christmas season with a fun and varied program by Queen City Cabaret (@qcccincy) of songs honoring the life and career of Rosemary Clooney. Focusing primarily on the Christmas albums Clooney recorded, principal artists Sarah Folsom (@sarahafolsom)…

@memorialhallotr continued its Jazz at the Memo concert series with a fun and invigorating performance by the Phil DeGreg Trio focusing on the music Vince Guaraldi wrote for the TV special a Charlie Brown Christmas, with an assortment of other Christmas tunes to complete the program. DeGreg’s piano style was…