Cleveland Orchestra

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Het Cleveland Orchestra is een Amerikaans orkest uit Cleveland in Ohio. Het werd in 1918 opgericht door de pianiste en impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, de zakenman John L. Severance, pater John Powers, criticus Archie Bell en de violist en dirigent Nikolai Sokoloff, die de eerste muziekdirecteur werd. Het eerste concert was op 11 december 1918 in Grays Armory. Het orkest hoort bij de Big Five, de vijf Amerikaanse orkesten die vaak als de beste worden genoemd. Sinds 1931 speelt het in Severance Hall. In 1921 begon het met kinderconcerten, een traditie die bleef, en in 1924 verscheen de eerste plaat, een verkorte versie van Tsjaikovski's 1812 Overture.

Muziek en doorbraak

De grote naam in de geschiedenis is George Szell, die in 1946 de vierde muziekdirecteur werd. Hij wilde het beste symfonieorkest van Amerika maken en veranderde daarvoor veel musici. Zijn contract gaf hem volledige artistieke controle. In 1957 maakte het orkest een eerste Europese tournee, ook achter het IJzeren Gordijn. Szell liet de akoestiek van Severance Hall aanpassen met de Szell Shell, om de klank evenwichtiger te maken. Op plaat verschenen uit zijn tijd onder meer Symphonies nos. 40 & 41 in 1956, Dvořáks Symphony no. 5 From the New World in 1957 en de vier symfonieën van Schumann in 1959.

Invloed

Het orkest staat bekend om zijn precisie en samenklank. De huidige muziekdirecteur is Franz Welser-Möst. Het Cleveland Orchestra laat zien hoe een orkest in een industriestad uitgroeide tot een wereldnaam, door strenge repetitie en een eigen klank.

Luisteren

Discografie

Studioalbums

• 1956Symphonies nos. 40 & 41
• 1957Symphony no. 5 in E minor, op. 95 “From the New World”
• 1959Concerto No. 1
• 1959Schumann: The Four Symphonies & Manfred Overture, Op. 115
• 1959Symphony no. 4 in G major, op. 88
• 1960Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor / Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
• 1961Piano Concerto no. 5
• 1963"Italian" Symphony, "The Hebrides" Overture / "Oberon" Overture
• 1964Barber: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, op. 38 / Schuman: A Song of Orpheus: Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra
• 1965Slavonic Dances, op. 46 / Slavonic Dances, op. 72
• 1966Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Janáček: Sinfonietta
• 1967Two Favorite Symphonies
• 1969Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 (Images Pour Orchestre / Danses, Sacree Et Profane)
• 1969Le Sacre du Printemps
• 1970Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102
• 1970Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
• 1972Violin Concerto & Double Concerto
• 1973Serenades: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 / "Posthorn" Serenade (no. 9 in D major), K. 320
• 1974Carmina Burana
• 1975The Great Verdi Ballets
• 1976Porgy and Bess
• 1976Symphony no. 5
• 1977Conducts Beethoven-Symphony No. 5; Symphony No. 4
• 1978Harold in Italy op. 16
• 1978Symphony No. 5
• 1979Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain
• 1980Le Coq d'or Suite • Capriccio Espagnol • Russian Easter Overture
• 1980The Rite of Spring
• 1981Symphony no. 5, op. 47
• 1982Feste Romane / The Pines of Rome
• 1982First Symphony in C minor, Op. 68
• 1982Symphonie fantastique
• 1982Symphony no. 4
• 1982Symphony No. 4 in A major / A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 1982Symphony no. 5
• 1982Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
• 1983Cello Concertos
• 1983Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite / Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite
• 1983Piano Concertos 1 & 3
• 1983Symphony No. 9 In C Major "Great"
• 1983Symphony no. Four
• 1984Alexander Nevsky
• 1984Symphony no. 2 in D / Finlandia
• 1984Symphony no. 3 "Eroica"
• 1985CBS Great Performances, Volume 19: Mozart 40th / 41st "Jupiter" Symphonies
• 1985Cinderella
• 1985Ein Heldenleben
• 1985Francesca da Rimini / Romeo & Juliet
• 1985Francesca da Rimini / Romeo & Juliet
• 1985Great Orchestral Highlights from "The Ring of the Niebelungs"
• 1985Schubert: "Unfinished" Symphony / Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 in F
• 1985Symphony no. 9 "The Great"
• 1986Symphony no. 7
• 1986Symphony No. 8 / Scherzo capriccioso
• 1986Symphony no. 9 “From the New World”
• 1987CBS Great Performances, Volume 96: Piano Concertos nos. 21 & 24
• 1987La mer / Nocturnes / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
• 1987Le Sacre du printemps / Four Norwegian Moods
• 1987Preludes and Overtures
• 1987Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Lullaby / Cuban Overture
• 1987Symphonie Nr. 4
• 1987Symphonies no. 40 & 41
• 1987Symphony No. 3 / Variations on a theme by Haydn
• 1987Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique" / Polonaise from Eugen Onegin
• 1987Symphony no. 9 "Choral"
• 1987Symphony no. 9 "New World" / Carnival Overture / Slavonic Dances, op. 46, nos. 1 & 8 / Smetana: The Moldau
• 1988Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4 / Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 25
• 1988Eine Alpensinfonie / Till Eulenspiegel
• 1988Piano Concerto No. 5. Choral Fantasy
• 1988Piano Concertos 1 & 2
• 1988Serenade no. 9 "Posthorn" / Exsultate, Jubilate
• 1988Symphonies no. 5 & no. 7
• 1988Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
• 1988Symphony No. 3 'Scottish' / Die Erste Walpurgisnacht
• 1988Symphony No. 3 / Tragic Overture
• 1988Tchaikovsky: The Great Symphonies, Vol. I
• 1988Tchaikovsky: The Great Symphonies, Vol. II
• 1989Cello Concerto op. 104 / Variations on a Rococo Theme
• 1989Don Juan / Till Eulenspiegel / Death & Transfiguration
• 1989La Mer / Daphnis Et Chloé
• 1989Le Poème de l'extase / Piano Concerto / Prometheus
• 1989Mahler 5
• 1989Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on the Bare Mountain
• 1989Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini / Franck: Symphonic Variations / Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
• 1989Symphonies 3 & 4
• 1989Symphonies no. 4 & no. 8
• 1989Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
• 1989Symphony No 6 'Pastorale'
• 1989Symphony no. 9 in D minor
• 1989Tchaikovsky: The Great Symphonies, Vol. I
• 1990"Eroica" Symphony No. 3
• 1990Concertos for Orchestra
• 1990Mahler 1
• 1990Slavonic Dances
• 1990Symphonies nos. 92, 94 & 96
• 1990Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
• 1990Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 / Rachmaninoff: Three Preludes
• 1990Violinkonzert / Akademische Festouvertüre
• 1991Bolero
• 1991Don Juan / Aus Italien
• 1991Dvořák: Symphony no. 6 / Janáček: Taras Bulba
• 1991Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
• 1991Piano Concertos no. 1 & no. 3
• 1991Rapsodie espagnole; La Valse; Ma mère l’oye; Valses nobles et sentimentales
• 1991symphonies n° 2 et 3
• 1991Symphonies Nos. 2, 5
• 1991Symphony No. 1 / Variations on a Theme by Haydn / 5 Hungarian Dances
• 1991Symphony no. 4
• 1991Symphony No. 4 / Academic Festival Overture / Tragic Overture
• 1991Symphony no. 4 / Songs of a Wayfarer
• 1991Symphony no. 6 "Tragic"
• 1992Images / Prélude à l’après‐midi d’un faune / Printemps
• 1992Pétrouchka / Le Sacre du printemps
• 1992Piano Concertos nos. 2 & 4
• 1992Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 / Lutoslawski: Musique funèbre
• 1992Symphony no. 15
• 1992Symphony no. 7
• 1992Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" / Symphony No. 9 "The Great"
• 1992The 9 Symphonies / Overtures
• 1993Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Dvořák: Othello Overture
• 1993Ein Heldenleben / Till Eulenspiegel
• 1993La Mer / Nocturnes / Iberia
• 1993Mahler 6 / Schoenberg: 5 Orchesterstücke / Webern: Im sommerwind
• 1993Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35, 36, 38-41 / Webern: Orchestral Works
• 1993Orchestral Works
• 1993Romeo and Juliet / Symphony No. 4
• 1993Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 / Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
• 1993Symphony no. 5
• 1994Ameriques / Symphony no. 4 / The Unanswered Question
• 1994Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 / Bach: Ricercare
• 1994Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Flute & Harp Concerto / Sinfonia concertante
• 1994Grohg / Hear ye! Hear ye! / Prelude
• 1994Mahler 4
• 1994Piano Concerto no. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
• 1994Rhapsody In Blue / An American In Paris / Cuban Overture
• 1994Symphonies nos. 8 & 9
• 1995Also sprach Zarathustra / Till Eulenspiegel / Tod und Verklärung
• 1995Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta / Martinů: Concerto for String Quartet & Orchestra / Janáček: Capriccio
• 1995Das Rheingold
• 1995Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Chronochromie / La Ville d’en Haut
• 1995Ives: Three Places in New England / Orchestral Set no. 2 / Ruggles: Sun-treader / Men and Mountains
• 1995La Mer / Nocturnes / Jeux / Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre
• 1995Music of Bedrich Smetana
• 1995Piano Concertos No. 21 "Elvira Madigan" and No. 26 "Coronation"
• 1995Symphonies 6 and 7
• 1995Symphonies no. 93, no. 95, no. 97
• 1996Earth Dances / Panic
• 1996Piano Concertos 1 & 3
• 1996Prélude à l’après‐midi d’un faune / Nocturnes / La Mer / A Conductor’s Guide with Gerard Schwarz
• 1996Symphony no. 7
• 1996Violin Concertos
• 1997Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
• 1997Don Quixote / Horn Concerto No. 1 / Don Juan
• 1997Forspill til en fauns ettermiddag
• 1997Overtures / Divertimento no. 2 / Symphony no. 28
• 1997Piano Concertos / Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel / Waltzes
• 1997Poèmes pour Mi / Sept Haïkaï / Le Réveil des oiseaux
• 1997Symphonie Fantastique / Tristia
• 1997Symphony no. 4 / Trio for violin, horn and piano, op. 40
• 1997The Fairy's Kiss / Faun and Shepherdess / Ode
• 1997Wagner: Die Walküre
• 1998Piano Concerto No. 4 / Corelli Variations / Sonata No. 2 / Prelude in C-sharp minor
• 1998Romeo and Juliet
• 1998Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: The Mono Years 1952-1955
• 1999Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite / Jeux d’enfants / Franck: Symphony in D minor
• 1999Favourite Overtures
• 1999Mahler: Symphony 9 / Hartmann: Adagio
• 1999Prokofiev: Cinderella / Glazunov: The Seasons
• 1999Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 / Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
• 1999Symphonies 3 & 8
• 2000Ein Heldenleben / Tod und Verklärung
• 2000Pictures at an Exhibition / Bolero / La Valse
• 2000Reopening Gala Concert: Severance Hall
• 2000Respighi: Feste romane / Pini di Roma / Rimsky‐Korsakov: Le Coq d’or (suite)
• 2000Strauss Waltzes
• 2000Symphonie no. 4
• 2000Symphonies nos. 40 and 41, 'Jupiter'
• 2001Ballet Music: Romeo and Juliet / Cinderella
• 2001Boulez conducts Stravinsky: Le Chant du rossignol / L’Histoire du soldat (suite) / Scherzo fantastique / Le roi des étoiles
• 2001Schoenberg: Piano Concerto / Klavierstücke, op. 11 & op. 19 / Berg: Sonata, op. 1 / Webern: Variations, op. 27
• 2001Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 / Weber: "Oberon" Overture
• 2001Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
• 2001Symphony No. 1 / Symphony No. 3 / "Manfred" Overture
• 2001Symphony no. 8 in G major, op. 88 / Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 “From the New World”
• 2002Symphonies no. 35 “Haffner”, no. 40, no. 41 “Jupiter”
• 2002Symphonies Nos. 2, 5
• 2003Leonore Overture No. 3 / Symphony No. 6
• 2003Roméo et Juliette / Les Nuits d'été
• 2003Violin Concerto / Sonata No. 3
• 2004Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bare Mountain / Khovanshchina / Boris Godunov
• 2006Piano Concerto no. 3 / Piano Concerto no. 4
• 2006Symphony no. 5 in E minor / Capriccio italien
• 2007Klarinettenkonzert
• 2007Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
• 2009Piano Concertos No. 23, K488 / No. 24, K491
• 2010Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Adagio From Symphony no. 10
• 2010Ein Deutsches Requiem
• 2010Symphonies nos. 35 "Haffner", 39, 40
• 2010Wesendonck-Lieder / Orchestral Music
• 2012Piano Concertos No. 9, K271 / No. 21, K467
• 2012The Firebird / Petrushka / The Rite of Spring
• 2013Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps / Debussy : Jeux
• 2013Symphony No. 5
• 2014Ein Heldenleben
• 2015The Five Piano Concertos
• 2016Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
• 2016Piano Concertos no. 17, K. 453 & no. 25, K. 503
• 2016Richard Strauss Tone Poems
• 2016Szell conducts Mussorgsky and Liadov
• 2017Piano Concerto No. 1 in D, op. 15
• 2018Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 (Remastered)
• 2018Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Liadov: The Enchanted Lake
• 2018Piano Concertos: no. 15 in B flat major / no. 17 in G major
• 2018Szell Conducts Beethoven Overtures (Remastered)
• 2020A New Century, Vol. 1
• 2020A New Century, Vol. 2
• 2020A New Century, Vol. 3
• 2020Schubert: Symphony in C major ("The Great") / Křenek: Static and Ecstatic
• 2020Schumann Symphony No. 3 In E-flat Major, Op. 97
• 2021Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings / Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2
• 2021Symphony no. 2 in C major, op. 61
• 2022Three Tone Poems
• 2023Berg: Three Pieces from Lyric Suite – Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
• 2023Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E-Flat Major
• 2023Symphony No. 5
• 2024Symphonie fantastique
• 2024Symphony No. 4 "Romantic"
• 2024Symphony No. 6
• 2025Eastman: Symphony no. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2
• 2025Les P’tites Femmes de Pigalle
• 2025Piano Concerto no. 27 / Symphony no. 29
• 2025Symphonie Fantastique
• 2025Symphony no. 4
• 2026Requiem
• 2026The Cleveland Residency
• 2026Ustvolskaya: Symphony No. 5 – Poulenc: La voix humaine
• ?Brahms: Violin Concerto / Schumann: Fantasy for Violin, op. 131
• ?CBS Great Performances, Volume 66: Piano Concerto no. 1
• ?Clarinet Concerto / Oboe Concerto / Bassoon Concerto
• ?Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 “New World” / Smetana: Moldau
• ?George Szell Conducts Beethoven Symphonies & Overtures
• ?Klavierkonzert Nr. 1, d-Moll, op. 15
• ?Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 & 5
• ?Mahler: Symphony no. 10 / Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Love music from Acts II & III)
• ?Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major
• ?Piano Concertos nos. 1-5
• ?Romeo & Juliet / Nutcracker Suite
• ?Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
• ?Symphonie No. 5 / Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
• ?Symphonie Nr. 2 D-dur, op. 73 / Haydn Variationen, Op. 56a
• ?Symphonies by Haydn
• ?Symphonies No. 94, No. 96, No. 98
• ?Symphonies Nos. 1 "Spring" & 4
• ?Symphony no. 4