Classical Concert Reviews Cinci

mayfestivalcincy continued its 2024 season with a program exploring the deeper meanings of anthems and the power to inspire and connect audiences, including two new scores by Festival Director Julia Wolfe (@juliawolfemusic) and an underrated masterpiece by Ralph Vaughan Williams.Wolfe’s All That Breathes, commissioned for this years’s festival, opened the…

@mayfestivalcincy opened its 2024 season with an absolutely spectacular performance of Franz Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, one of the most significant choral works to emerge from the early romantic period.Originally set to a German libretto by the Austrian diplomat Gottfried von Swieten, The Creation was the first of two…

To say the memories @cincysymphony and @louislangree have made together in his eleven years as music director are innumerable might be an understatement. Reading the Scrapbook of Memorues which is part of this weekend’s season finale for 2023-24 has given me a deeper appreciation of how much audiences in Cincinnati…

What a way for @louislangree to close out a spectacular 11-year tenure as music director of @cincysymphony this evening! Opening with a dramatic, yet joyful performance of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 2, the orchestra showed off its mastery of a composer whose music Langrée has made an integral part of…

@cincysymphony began May 2024 with a scintillating and energetic program of works by two of the most well-known composers from both sides of the classical music spectrum- Cincinnati native Bryce Dessner and Ludwig van Beethoven.Under the leadership of guest conductor Samuel Lee (@samuellee_conductor), the CSO’s Associate Conductor and recent winner…

@cincinnatifusionensemble presented the spring 2024 Sandy Sanborn Martin Memorial Program at @calvaryclifton with perhaps the most eclectic potpourri of music they have programmed yet. It was also a momentous occasion for the group, as tonight’s concert marked its 10th anniversary. Under the leadership of conductors Howard Helvey and Gwen Coleman,…

@cincysymphony ended its slate of concerts for April 2024 with an exhilarating program of works by Dimitri Shostakovich and Antonin Dvořak. Under the direction of guest conductor Katharina Wincor making a return appearance to Cincinnati following her triumphant May Festival debut in 2022 leading Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, the orchestra opened…

@uc_ccm’s Philharmonia, under its music director Mark Gibson, closed out its slate of concerts for the 2023-24 academic year with a program dedicated to the combination of full orchestra and jazz, pairing music by two of America’s most well-known jazz composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.Pianist Diana Chubak, a…

A fabulous masters recital tonight by @rachaelmbell at CCM this evening, featuring songs by Berlioz, Arnold Schoenberg and Melissa Dunphy (@mormolyke) and a solo madrigal by Francesca Caccini. Accompanied by collaborative pianist Parker Konkle and theorbo player Christopher Wilkie, Bell’s voice was full of glowing resonance, emotive strength and supple…

@uc_ccm’s Concert Orchestra and @ccm_choralstudies graced the stage of Cincinnati Music Hall this evening with players and singers from no fewer than 10 additional ensembles from throughout the Cincinnati area for a fantastic performance of Carl Orff’s cantata Carmina Burana. Under the direction of the CCM orchestra’s principal conductor Aik…