The Cleveland Orchestra Does Mozart and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Weekend

Just back from heading up the jury for the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, pianist Garrick Ohlsson turns his formidable interpretive powers to the music of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart in three performances of the Viennese genius’s Concerto No. 23 with Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra. The concerts on Thursday and Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 3 in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center will also include Tyler Taylor’s Permissions, and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish.” Tickets are available online.

The Poesis Quartet — violinists Sarah Ma and Max Ball, violist Jasper de Boor, and cellist Drew Dansby — return to their ensemble’s birthplace at the Oberlin Conservatory this week for coachings and a performance of John Adams’ Absolute Jest with Raphael Jiménez and the Oberlin Orchestra on Friday at 7:30 in Finney Chapel. Jiménez has more contemporary music planned for this program, including Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers, Angelica Negrón’s Campos Flotantes, and Zhou Tian’s Transcend. It’s free, and will also be live streamed.

On Saturday at 4, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Ohio will present soprano Małgorzata Trojanowska with pianists Jiana Peng and Konrad Binienda in Songs of Poland, including selections from Fryderyk Chopin’s Polish Songs, Op. 74, Karol Szymanowski’s Kurpian Songs, Op. 58, and Jan Ignacy Paderewski’s Four Mélodies, Op. 7, in Harkness Chapel, 11200 Bellflower Road, Cleveland. Tickets are available online.

And on Sunday at 4, Canadian-born concert organist Ken Cowan, who is professor of organ at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, will play a recital dedicating the newly-restored 1924 Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling pipe organ in St. John Cantius Church, 906 College Ave., in Cleveland. Free admission. Click here to watch Cowan demonstrate the great organ of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.

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

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