Franz Welser-Möst led the Cleveland Orchestra and pianist Danill Trifonov in a program of Brahms and Prokofiev for the official season opener Thursday night at Severance Music Center. The performance of Brahms’ gargantuan German First Piano Concerto and Prokofiew’s stentorian Russian Sixth Symphony added up to a full evening overflowing with superlatives.
Franz Welser-Möst leads the Cleveland Orchestra and pianist Danill Trifonov in a program of Brahms and Prokofiev at the official 2023 season opener Thursday, Sept. 28, at Severance Music Center. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The time-honored classical program format of three works was missing its overture at Severance Music Center on Thursday evening as Franz Welser-Möst led the Cleveland Orchestra in its official season opener.
Originally conceived as a two-piano sonata, the piece took shape over a five-year period during which the composer repurposed its material as a symphony, then finally as a piano concerto of symphonic proportions. The large, well-behaved audience sat on their hands for the two remaining movements — an Adagio love-song to Clara Schumann, the concerto’s dedicatee, and for the finale, a cheerful rondo rather shamelessly imitating the finale of Beethoven’s Third Concerto — then gave Trifonov and his colleagues a thundering ovation.
Much of the symphony sounds like cinematic traveling music — or maybe we should say that movie music can sound a lot like Prokofiev. Such passages as the opening brass snarls, the hyper-dissonant chords, and dramatic salvos from the percussion section are thrillingly foreign to the concert hall experience but were played with compelling brilliance by all sections of the orchestra.
The conductor discussed the orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellowship and its success in identifying young talent who will go on to international careers. He said that he first heard current fellow Allison Loggins-Hull’s music when TCO’s principal flute Joshua Smith played it during a recital.
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