Photo courtesy Apollo's Fire
We’ll launch our classical music recommendations this week with programs that have more than a single performance.
- That list begins on Thursday at 7:30 with Apollo’s Fire’s “¡Hispania! A Voyage from Spain to the Americas,” featuring soprano Sophia Burgos & flamenco guitarist & singer Marija Temo at St. Rocco (repeated Friday at 7:30 and Saturday at 8:00 at St. Paul's in Cleveland Hts.).
- Also on Thursday at 7:30, guest conductor Dalia Stasevska will lead The Cleveland Orchestra with mezzo-soprano Josefina Maldonado in local composer Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater and nordic works by Rautavaara & Sibelius at Severance Music Center (repeated Friday at 7:30 & Saturday at 8).
- And Baldwin Wallace Opera will begin a four-performance run of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow in Gamble Auditorium on Friday at 8 (repeated Saturday at 3 & 8 and Sunday at 3.)
- We have loads of single performances to highlight this week: percussionist She-e Wu with the CIM Percussion Ensemble (Wednesday at 7 in Mixon Hall), the Ukrainian U4U Band (Thursday at 7:30 at the Maltz), Oberlin College Choir & Chamber Singers (Thursday at 7:30 in Warner Concert Hall), CityMusic Chamber Series featuring clarinetist Daniel Gilbert, violinist Kiarra Saito-Beckman, cellist Anna Kuo & pianist Donna Lee in Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat (Friday at 7 at Praxis Fiber Workshop), and Local #4 Music Fund will present tenor saxophonist Drew Hosler & pianist Eric Charnofsky (Friday at 7 at Disciples).
- Over the weekend, Heights Arts Close Encounters will feature Cleveland Orchestra members (Sunday at 3 at Dunham Tavern), Arts Renaissance Tremont will present Cleveland Orchestra principal cello Mark Kosower with Tatiana Lokhina, piano & the Cavani String Quartet (Sunday at 4 at St. Wendelin), Factory Seconds Brass — Cleveland Orchestra second chair players Jack Sutte, trumpet, Jesse McCormick, horn & Richard Stout, trombone — will play on Hudson’s Music from the Western Reserve Series (Sunday at 5 in Christ Church), and the Los Angeles-based contemporary music ensemble Wild Up will showcase music by Julius Eastman in Mixon Hall at CIM (Sunday at 7:30).
- And there’s still more: Monday evening performances, both at 7:30,will feature violist Jordan Bak on the LCCC Signature Series in Elyria, and Baldwin Wallace faculty mezzo-soprano Nancy Maultsby with the Poiesis Quartet in recent music by Richard Stout & Clint Needham (Gamble Auditorium in Berea).
Click here to visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings page for more information.
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