This week's Cleveland Ovations featured a faculty ensemble from Cleveland State University, the Ekklésia Ensemble. Thomas Lempner plays alto saxophone in the group, and he spoke with WCLV's Angela Mitchell during intermission of the broadcast.
Joela Jones, keyboardist for The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst are on their 15th international concert tour and 7th biennial Vienna Residency together performing 12 concerts in 10 cities October 15 to 31. Joela Jones is the featured soloist, playing the piano solo on Messian's "Couleurs de la cité céleste." She spoke with Angela Mitchell from the orchestra's hotel in Luxembourg.
Photo by Roger Mastroianni
Christopher Wilkins, conductor
The Akron Symphony presents the music of John Williams on Saturday, October 10, 2015, 8:00 pm at EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall. Music Director Christopher Wilkins stopped by WCLV to preview the performance.
Antonio Pompa-Baldi, pianist
On a recent episode of Cleveland Ovations, Cleveland Institute of Music faculty played music by Oded Zehavi, Erwin Schulhoff, and Olivier Messian, a live Violins of Hope event from Kulas Hall. At intermission, Antonio Pompa-Baldi spoke with WCLV's Angela Mitchell.
Anne Akiko Meyers, violinist
Angela spoke with Anne Akiko Meyers about her latest release, "Serenade: The Love Album." It's an exploration of love in all its dimensions, featuring Leonard Bernstein's "Serenade" and ten world premieres from seven living composer-arrangers. "Serenade" is one of Leonard Bernstein's masterpieces, and was recorded in anticipation of the composer's upcoming 100th birthday celebration. It is based on a reading of Plato's Symposium, in which seven ancient Greek philosophers debate the meaning of love. Anne Akiko Meyers, a champion of living composers, commissioned seven renowned composer-arrangers to create ten works for violin and orchestra from love-inspired music from stage and film to pair with the Serenade. The London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart join Anne in this recording, which will be released on the celebration of Anne's own parents' 50th wedding anniversary, produced by Susan Napodano DelGiorno and engineered by GRAMMY-award winner Silas Brown.
Peter Gelb, General Manager of The Metropolitan Opera
This Saturday, The Metropolitan Opera launches its 10th season of The Met: Live in HD with Verdi's Il Trovatore. Showcasing one of opera’s biggest stars, Anna Netrebko, the performance will be transmitted live on October 3 from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera house in New York to movie theaters around the world.
Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Met, spoke with WCLV's Angela Mitchell at this 10-year milestone.
Dario Acosta/Metropolitan Opera
Theodore Kuchar, conductor
The Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra was led by a CIM graduate, Theodore Kuchar. Theodore spoke with WCLV's Angela Mitchell during intermission of a live Cleveland Ovations.
Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar, guest conductor
Michael Siess, violin, student artist
Bethany Hargreaves, viola, student artist
CHADWICK Jubilee from Symphonic Sketches
MOZART Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
Ross Duffin, conductor
Ross Duffin is the Artistic Director of Quire Cleveland, and he spoke with Angela Mitchell at intermission of Cleveland Ovations. The program was called "The Flower of Flanders: Masterpieces of Renaissance Polyphony." These composers from Flanders dominated music in the same way that Italians dominated the visual arts. Giants like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, and Tintoretto had their counterparts in DuFay, Josquin, Willært, and Lassus, and a remarkable number of other sublimely talented composers. They were trained in the choir schools of the North, and often drawn to the brilliant courts of Renaissance Italy. Listen to the entire concert here.
Photo by Mark Satola
Carl Topilow, conductor
The Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra opened its 2015-16 season with Schuman, Bartók, and Shostakovich, led by music director Carl Topilow. Carl spoke with Angela Mitchell during intermission.
Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra
Carl Topilow, conductor
Yuri Noh, piano, student artist
SCHUMAN New England Triptych (“Three Pieces for Orchestra after William Billings”)
BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Johannes Moser, cellist
Johannes Moser's debut album with Pentatone was released today. He spoke with WCLV's Angela Mitchell about his first time recording the Dvořák and Lalo cello concertos.
Photo courtesy of Pentatone
Max Richter, composer
One of Britain's leading contemporary composers has written what is thought to be one of the longest single piece of classical music ever to be recorded. SLEEP is eight hours long - and is actually and genuinely intended to send the listener to sleep.
Max Richter spoke with WCLV's Angela Mitchell about how the piece might influence our sleep cycles, trying it out on his friends, and how you can experience it in person at its Berlin premiere.
Photo by Yulia Mahr
Joaquin Valdepeñas, conductor, and Adele Anthony, violinist
This week's Cleveland Ovations is a concert by CityMusic Cleveland, recorded March 2015, called "Guardian Angels." Guest condcutor Joaquin Valdepeñas and violin soloist Adele Anthony visited WCLV to preview the program with Angela Mitchell.
Orli Shaham, pianist
The latest release by pianist Orli Shaham is called "Brahms Inspired," and it’s a WCLV Choice CD of the month. It includes music that inspired Brahms, music that Brahms wrote under that inspiration, and music that he in turn inspired. Orli Shaham spoke with WCLV's Angela Mitchell from a studio in Aspen, Colorado.
Avner Dorman, conductor and composer
This week's Cleveland Ovations is a concert by CityMusic Cleveland. Music Director Avner Dorman leads the orchestra in the music of Mozart, Haydn, Dvořák, and his own Saxophone Concerto. He and saxophonist Timothy McAllister preview the program with WCLV host Angela Mitchell.
Avner Dorman, composer and Music Director of CityMusic Cleveland
Timothy McAllister, Saxophonist
Nathan Hughes, oboe and Julie Albers, cello
Nathan Hughes is Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera and Julie Albers is Principal Cello for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. They are in town performing in concerts for ChamberFest Cleveland, which can be heard on WCLV. During the intermission of Thursday's live broadcast of "Music for a Summer Evening," Nathan and Julie spoke with Angela Mitchell.
Julie Albers and Nathan Hughes
Lauren Generette, Manager of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra heads to China on June 15 for a 10-day, 4-city tour of China--the first in the orchestra's history. Lauren Generette is the Manager of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, tasked with running all non-musical aspects of the organization. She sat down with WCLV's Angela Mitchell to discuss everything that goes into getting a group of 100 people safely to China and back.
Lauren Generette, Manager of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
David Fallis, conductor
David Fallis sat down with Angela Mitchell to talk about why the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating books of the Bible, and why composers throughout the ages have set its text to music.
Cleveland Ovations
June 10, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.: Quire Cleveland
The Song of Songs: Choral Settings from Medieval to Modern
Recorded live in concert on Friday, February 27 & 28, 2015, at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Cleveland, and St. Bernard Catholic Church, Akron
David Fallis, guest conductor; Ross W. Duffin, artistic director
Program
Medieval Roots: Gregorian chant, Dunstable
The Spanish School: Guerrero, Victoria
Palestrina
The Early Baroque: Monteverdi, Schütz, M. Franck
An American Original: Billings
The Modern British School: Bairstow, Moody, Walton
In the Original Language: Hebrew cantillation, Sharlin
Romantics: Willan, Grieg
The Polychoral Tradition: Lasso, H. Praetorius
David Fallis
Gary Hanson, Executive Director of The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra heads to China on June 15 for a 10-day, 4-city tour of China--the first in the orchestra's history. In this interview, Cleveland Orchestra Executive Director Gary Hanson speaks about the significance of the tour to the Musical Arts Association.
Cavani Quartet
The Cavani String Quartet celebrates their 30th anniversary this season, and on this week's Cleveland Ovations, WCLV broadcasts their recent concert at the Cleveland Institute of Music's Kulas Hall. Violinists Annie Fullard and Mari Sato sat down with Angela Mitchell to preview the concert.
CIPC Young Artists Competition winners Yuanfan Yang & Jae Hong Park
CIPC Young Artists is an international competition for pianists ages 12 through 18 presented by the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Launched by the CIPC in 2003 as a one-day competition for Ohio piano students, the program has been reorganized this year to follow the multi-round format of the CIPC.
15-year-old Jae Hong Park (r) from South Korea is the first prize winner in the Junior Division, and 18-year-old Yuanfan Yang (l) from the United Kingdom won first prize in the Senior Division. They spoke with Angela Mitchell the morning after winning the competition.
