CONCERT WATCH – Cleveland Orchestra

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The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra has traditionally been considered one of America’s Big Five – along with New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. They’ve amassed six decades of recordings at the orchestra’s home in Severance Hall, and this summer they’re making some of those recordings available for on-demand listening. The series is called TCO Classics, and the first recordings are online now. They include the orchestra’s near-legendary performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with conductor Pierre Boulez back in 1967, and a 2015 performance, led by The Cleveland Orchestra’s current music director, Franz Welser-Möst, of Mozart’s Symphony #41. Many people refer to this as Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, because it was his biggest one. But it was the smallest piece on this ambitious concert that included two works by Richard Strauss as well. TCO Classics means you can hear some or all of the concert any time.

There’s a link to this TCO Classics series and many others, at wqxr.org/concertwatch.