The Cleveland Orchestra Releases Three New Recordings

The Cleveland Orchestra will have three new commercial recordings available worldwide in May: a new DVD recordings of Franz Welser-Möst leading Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 recorded at Severance Hall; Pierre Boulez leading the Adagio from Mahler's Symphony No. 10 and Des Knaben Wunderhorn with vocal soloists Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano, and Christian Gerhaher, baritone; and a CD of Mitsuko Uchida leading and performing Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 27.

With these new releases, The Cleveland Orchestra continues its distinguished history of nearly 600 recordings, broadcasting the Cleveland sound around the world.

Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 with Franz Welser-Möst - DVD and Telecasts
The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst's live DVD recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 is being released in the United States on May 31.

The Cleveland Orchestra in Performance: Bruckner Symphony No. 8 will be telecast in Northeast Ohio on WVIZ/PBS ideastream® on June 16 at 9 p.m., and in Europe on ORF TV on June 23.

The DVD includes a bonus concert preview discussion by Franz Welser-Möst and video director William Cosel hosted by ideastream® producer Dee Perry.

Recorded during concerts on August 11 and 12, 2010 by WVIZ/PBS ideastream® at the Orchestra's home, Severance Hall in Cleveland, this performance of the 1887 revised version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, edited by Leopold Nowak, is the fourth DVD in a series featuring the Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst performing Bruckner's music in historic venues. Previous releases feature Bruckner Symphony No. 5 recorded at St. Florian Cathedral in Linz, Austria and Bruckner Symphony No. 9 recorded at the Musikverein concert hall in Vienna. Bruckner Symphony No. 7 was also recorded at Severance Hall.

Herbert G. Kloiber produced the Bruckner Symphony No. 8 recording for CLASART, to be distributed by Arthaus and Naxos. The video sound was produced by Elaine Martone and RoBert Woods of Sonarc Music, engineered by Michael Bishop of Five/Four Productions, Ltd., and edited by Thomas Moore of Five/Four Productions. The Cleveland Orchestra acknowledges both Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich and CLASART for their generous support of the DVD release. The Cleveland Orchestra, CLASART, and Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich have had a long-term partnership resulting in DVDs of Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, 8, and 9.

The Bruckner Connection
Like Bruckner, Franz Welser-Möst was born in Linz, Austria. He has a long, critically acclaimed association with the composer's symphonies, and has led performances of them by The Cleveland Orchestra since 1996. During the 2010-11 season - Mr. Welser-Möst's ninth as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra - he will have led the Orchestra in a total of 17 Bruckner performances, in Ohio, Scotland, Switzerland, Japan, and South Korea, as well as in New York City.

Bruckner: (R)evolution, July 13-17
The upcoming New York performances of Bruckner from July 13-17, 2011 mark the Orchestra's debut at the Lincoln Center Festival, where it begins an ongoing biennial residency - the festival's first multi-year commitment to a visiting orchestra. Franz Welser-Möst will lead four concerts at the Lincoln Center Festival, including Bruckner's Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, 8, and 9, paired with the music of John Adams. Full details of this residency and also video clips featuring Franz Welser-Möst and John Adams are available online at:
http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org/index.php/cleveland-orchestra-2011

Boulez Conducts Mahler - DVD and Telecasts
A 90-minute high-definition DVD of Pierre Boulez conducting The Cleveland Orchestra in works of Mahler, produced by WVIZ/PBS ideastream® with international production partners CLASART Classic, ARTE, Accentus Music, and Deutsche Grammophon, has just been released. The world premiere telecast took place on Sunday, May 1, at 4:30 p.m. on WVIZ/PBS ideastream®, with a prime-time rebroadcast on Saturday, May 7, at 9:30 p.m. The program will be aired in Europe on ARTE TV on May 15.

The program, produced and directed by William Cosel, was taped during live performances presented in February 2010 at Severance Hall. It includes Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major, and his Des Knaben Wunderhorn ("The Youth's Magic Horn"), Songs for Voice and Orchestra, with vocal soloists Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano, and Christian Gerhaher, baritone.

An audio recording of this program was released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2010. It was cited as "Disc of the Month" by BBC Music Magazine, that said, "Energy and quality of imagination shine throughout this disc." The Plain Dealer's review said, "Kozena is every bit the star she was before, animating her roles with intense vocal and theatrical character. Gerhaher, meanwhile, sounds even better on record, delivering dramatic, full-bodied performances. No less a keepsake is the Adagio from Mahler's Tenth, a cool and insightful reading marked as before by overwhelming softness, piercing dissonance, and throat-grabbing peaks."

The television program and recording celebrate several milestones, including Pierre Boulez's 85th birthday and the 45th anniversary year of his debut with The Cleveland Orchestra; the 150th anniversary of Mahler's birth (2010), and the 100th anniversary of his death (2011). This release marks Boulez's 24th recording with The Cleveland Orchestra.

Decca to Release Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20, K.466 & No. 27, K.595 - Mitsuko Uchida and The Cleveland Orchestra May 3
Mitsuko Uchida, who recently won a Grammy® Award this year for her previous Mozart concerto recording with The Cleveland Orchestra, is soloist and conductor in Mozart Concertos Nos. 20 in D minor and 27 in B-flat major in Cleveland Orchestra performances that were recorded live in Severance Hall. The album was exclusively released through the Cleveland Orchestra Store on April 19 and receives full distribution in the United States on May 3, 2011.

Of Mitsuko Uchida's performances of Mozart, The Independent writes: "No pianist conveys the rapture of Mozart quite like Mitsuko Uchida does." Though Ms. Uchida has previously recorded all the Mozart piano concertos, she has chosen to re-visit them with The Cleveland Orchestra in performances, recorded live, during which she acts as both soloist and conductor with a new and fresh conception of these masterpieces.

Of the performances in April 2010 recorded for this release, the Plain Dealer wrote: "Back at Severance Hall this week revisiting two concertos from her recent Mozart cycle, Uchida turns in readings of such eloquence, one has no trouble understanding why they're also being recorded for posterity.... The slow middle movement proves one of those experiences none but Uchida can mastermind, a stroll through some heavenly musical garden, where time and gravity hold no sway. Happily, it's also an experience listeners will soon be able to repeat at home."

Mitsuko Uchida and The Cleveland Orchestra's previous recorded collaboration, Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 24, recently won the Grammy® Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra. This was Ms. Uchida's first Grammy® win in a career full of accolades.

Franz Welser-Möst
Born in Linz, Austria, Franz Welser-Möst often performs and records the music of Bruckner - who famously served as organist at the Abbey of St. Florian, just outside Linz. Mr. Welser-Möst has led The Cleveland Orchestra in video recordings of live performances of four Bruckner symphonies made in historic concert venues: Symphony No. 5 in the Abbey of St. Florian, Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 in Severance Hall, and Symphony No. 9 in Vienna's Musikverein.
Franz Welser-Möst has a long-term commitment extending to the Orchestra's centennial in 2018. Under his direction, the Orchestra holds residencies in the United States and Europe, champions living composers, and has re-established itself as an important operatic ensemble. In September 2010, as Mr. Welser-Möst began his ninth season as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra, he began serving concurrently as General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera.
In 2008, Mr. Welser-Möst led The Cleveland Orchestra in five sold-out performances of Dvo?ák's Rusalka at the Salzburg Festival. During the 2010-11 season, Mr. Welser-Möst and the Orchestra presented a Zurich Opera production of Don Giovanni at Severance Hall, completing a series of Mozart/Da Ponte operas. Sold-out performances of Don Giovanni followed Severance Hall performances of Zurich productions of The Marriage of Figaro (2008-09) and Così fan tutte (2009-10).
In June 2010, Franz Welser-Möst conducted the Vienna Philharmonic's outdoor Sommernachts concert at Schönbrunn Palace and, in 2011, he conducted the orchestra's world-renowned concerts celebrating the New Year. At the Vienna State Opera, Mr. Welser-Möst has recently led a new production of Wagner's Ring cycle with stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf and conducted Wagner's Tannhäuser and Parsifal, in addition to leading the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms, Lucerne Festival, and in a special concert in Vienna to mark the 150th anniversary of the Vienna Singverein.
Mr. Welser-Möst's recording with soprano Measha Brueggergosman and The Cleveland Orchestra of the Wesendonck Lieder and a collection of operatic orchestral music by Wagner was released on Deutsche Grammophon in 2010, following Mr. Welser-Möst's DG recording with The Cleveland Orchestra of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 2007. Mr. Welser-Möst's recordings and videos have won the Gramophone Award, Diapason d'Or, Japanese Record Academy Award, and two Grammy nominations.

The Cleveland Orchestra
Long considered one of America's great orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra stands today among the world's most acclaimed symphonic ensembles. Through concerts at home in Severance Hall; at its summer home, Blossom Music Center; and on tour, The Cleveland Orchestra continues to set standards of performing excellence and imaginative programming that serve as models for audiences and performers alike.
Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. Their partnership has earned the Orchestra unprecedented residencies in the United States, including its Miami Residency, now in its fifth year, and in Europe, including one at the Musikverein in Vienna, the first of its kind by an American orchestra. Since the start of his tenure in 2002, Franz Welser-Möst and the Orchestra have toured extensively, to critical acclaim. During the 2011-12 season, the Orchestra will tour to Cologne, Linz, Luxembourg, Madrid, Paris, and Valencia, and hold a residency in Vienna. The Orchestra held residencies at the Edinburgh and Lucerne festivals in summer 2010 and at Suntory Hall in Japan in the fall of 2010. Summer 2011 marks the first year of its multi-year residency at New York's Lincoln Center Festival.

Pierre Boulez
The relationship between Pierre Boulez and The Cleveland Orchestra has borne extraordinary fruit over the span of more than four decades since Mr. Boulez made his American professional orchestra debut conducting The Cleveland Orchestra in March 1965. Following that pivotal invitation from George Szell, Pierre Boulez was appointed the Orchestra's first Principal Guest Conductor in 1969, and shortly after Szell's death in 1970, he stepped in to serve as Musical Advisor for two seasons. Over the past 45-plus years, Pierre Boulez has led the Orchestra in more than 200 concerts. The enduring Boulez-Cleveland connection has represented a meeting of musical minds in repertoire ranging from early-20th-century modernists such as Bartók, Debussy, Schoenberg,
and Stravinsky through Pierre Boulez's own groundbreaking compositions. Over a career
during which his recordings have garnered Gramophone, Echo, and Deutscher Schallplattenpreis awards and more than 25 Grammy Awards, five of the Grammys have been given for recordings with Pierre Boulez conducting The Cleveland Orchestra in works by Berlioz, Debussy, and Stravinsky.
Pierre Boulez's complete recorded cycle of Mahler symphonies on the Deutsche Grammophon label features Nos. 4 and 7 with The Cleveland Orchestra. He extends his legacy with this DVD recorded in 2010 at Severance Hall, the home of The Cleveland Orchestra. Returning once again at age 85 to lead the Orchestra where he had his American beginning, Pierre Boulez brings his authoritative stamp to these important Mahler works.

Mitsuko Uchida
Mitsuko Uchida, who made her Cleveland Orchestra debut as piano soloist in 1990 and her conducting debut with the Orchestra in March 1998, has appeared with the Orchestra in more than 80 performances, including concerts at Carnegie Hall and on tour in Europe and Japan. From 2002 to 2007, she served as Artist-in-Residence with the Orchestra, a position made possible by the Malcolm E. Kenney Artist-in-Residence Endowment Fund. She completed her five-year project to perform all of Mozart's piano concertos with the Orchestra in May 2007. Ms. Uchida has recently recorded four Mozart piano concertos with the Orchestra, released on the Decca label. The first disc won a Grammy Award in 2011.
Ms. Uchida's most recent appearances with the Orchestra were during its residency in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2010, when she performed four different Mozart concertos, conducting from the keyboard, and also was soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, with Franz Welser-Möst conducting. In February 2011, she performed a recital of works by Beethoven, Chopin, and Schumann in Severance Hall that was a benefit for Cleveland Orchestra artistic initiatives through a sustaining fund for pianos. During the 2011-12 season, Ms. Uchida will appear with the Orchestra in performances of Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 9 and 21, conducting from the keyboard. Her 2001 recording of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez and The Cleveland Orchestra won four awards, including one from Gramophone for "best concerto recording."

William Cosel
William Cosel, the producer/director of Bruckner Symphony No. 8, has decades of experience producing Evening At Pops. His work as a freelance producer-director includes The Cleveland Orchestra in Performance: Bruckner Symphony No. 7, aired on PBS stations nationwide; Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias from the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome, Italy; In Performance at the White House hosted by James Naughton, with Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Jennifer Holliday; and The Three Tenors with Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti, recorded at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.

WVIZ/PBS ideastream®
WVIZ/PBS, Northeast Ohio's public television station, is part of ideastream®, a non-profit organization that applies the power of media to education, culture and citizenship. In addition to WVIZ/PBS, ideastream includes 90.3 WCPN, education and public service cable channels, broadband interactive video distance learning, the Internet, and other interactive media. ideastream® creates several hours a day of award-winning programming for distribution on these streams, receiving in the last year five regional Emmy Awards, multiple Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists, and Public Broadcasting awards, and a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, among others. ideastream is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
The Cleveland Orchestra and WVIZ/PBS are ongoing collaborators. Most recently, a series of television programs featuring Franz Welser-Möst and the Orchestra performing Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, and 9 were produced for broadcast on public television stations nationwide by WVIZ/PBS.

Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich and CLASART
The Cleveland Orchestra thanks Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich and CLASART, for their ongoing support of the Orchestra's electronic media projects and European radio and TV broadcasts. Performances of Bruckner's Symphonies No. 5, 7, and 9 have also been recorded, released, and telecast with their continued sponsorship.

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 (DVD)
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall, Cleveland, August 11 and 12, 2010

ANTON BRUCKNER (1824-1896) Symphony No. 8 (1887 version, edited by Leopold Nowak)
Catalog number: 101581

Boulez Conducts Mahler (DVD)
The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano
Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Recorded live at Severance Hall, Cleveland, February 11, 12, and 13, 2010

MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Catalog number: ACC20231

Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20, K.466 & No. 27, K.595
The Cleveland Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and conductor
Recorded live at Severance Hall, Cleveland, April 15, 17, and 18, 2010

MOZART Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K. 466
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
CD 000289 478 2596 8 |D|H|

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