Beethoven's Seventh at Severance Music Center

The Cleveland Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

MOZART  Piano Concerto No. 18 (“Paradis”)

BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 7

Beloved conductor Herbert Blomstedt returns to Cleveland for a program of Beethoven and Mozart favorites. “What he offers, above all, is a kind of preternatural rightness: no gesture feels out of place, no gesture feels routine,” The New Yorker’s Alex Ross wrote of Blomstedt, who he also described as “the most vital conductor of Beethoven.” Beethoven’s Seventh is the composer’s greatest demonstration of the compelling power of rhythm, and it’s paired with Mozart’s “Paradis” Piano Concerto.