Here are our classical music recommendations for this weekend, selected from our master concert listings calendar.
FRIDAY
On Friday at 11 am, conductor-composer John Adams and pianist Aaron Diehl joinThe Cleveland Orchestra for Adams’ Frenzy: a short symphony and his arrangements of Astor Piazzolla tangos, Charles Ives’ From Greenland’s Icy Mountains, and Timo Andres’ Made of Tunes. (Repeated on Saturday at 7:30.) • Friday evening at 7:30, the Oberlin Artist Recital Series hosts the American Brass Quintet in Finney Chapel, and Cleveland Pops Orchestra features magician Michael Grandinetti in a night of music and illusions at Severance Music Center.
On Sunday at 5 pm, the Kent Keyboard Series welcomes pianist Stephanie Shih-yu Cheng to Ludwig Recital Hall, while Music from the Western Reserve presents cellist Brendon Phelps and pianist Alexandre Marr in a program designed around Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata at Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson.
On Sunday at 7 pm, James Feddeck leads The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and Chorus in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3, Antonín Dvořák’s Te Deum, and Howard Hanson’s Song of Democracy at Severance Music Center, and organist David Blazer and percussionist Andrew Pongracz provide a live score for the Cleveland Silent Film Festival’s screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River.
For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.
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