The Cleveland Orchestra Continues its Beethoven Concerto Cycle and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week

This week’s picks begin with a shakeup of personnel at Severance Music Center, continue with a popular opera at Oberlin, and welcome top-notch visiting ensembles and solo artists to Northeast Ohio.

– The Cleveland Orchestra’s seven-concert Beethoven Concerto Cycle, which was to have starred pianist Igor Levit with Franz Welser-Möst at the helm, has been reworked after the conductor withdrew to continue medical treatments, then Levit himself pulled out.

Five pianists will fill the void, and assistant conductor Daniel Reith will lead all performances, including the program on Saturday at 8 pm that will spotlight Garrick Ohlsson in Concertos No. 2 and No. 4 (repeated on Tuesday at 7:30).

– On Thursday at 8 pm in Hall Auditorium, Oberlin Opera Theater will stage Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon (aka Cinderella), directed by Stephanie Havey, with Oberlin alum and former Cleveland Orchestra assistant conductor James Feddeck conducting the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra (repeated on Friday and Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 2.)

Based in Norwich, England, the Marian Consort will visit the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist on Friday at 8 pm to sing a program of “sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from Scotland’s few surviving sixteenth-century manuscripts.”

– Also on Friday, the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society will present João Luiz, one–half of the Brasil Guitar Duo in his first solo concert for CCGS (7:30 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center.)

– A third event on Friday hosts New York Philharmonic principal clarinet Anthony McGill and Earl Howard, keyboard/electronics, who will join the Oberlin Sinfonietta in Tania León’s Toque, Stephen Hartke’s The Horse with the Lavender Eye, Alvin Singleton’s Again, and Anthony Davis’ You Have the Right to Remain Silent. Timothy Weiss conducts the ensemble at 7:30 in Warner Concert Hall.

– And early next week, two chamber music societies will bring visiting artists to town. On Monday at 7:30, the Rocky River Chamber Music Society continues its 66th season with the all-female Seraph Brass Quintet, followed by the slightly older Cleveland Chamber Music Society, who will sponsor a performance by Cuarteto Casals on Tuesday at 7:30 at Disciples Church as part of their 75th anniversary season. The Casals will play quartets by Mozart, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Brahms.

For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.

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