The Miami Herald recently reviewed the Cleveland Orchestra's "riveting" final performance of its fifth annual residency in Miami.
"With Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek in command, the Clevelanders were in top form, all sections playing with high-tech virtuosity and tonal luster," writes reviewer Lawrence Budman.
Belohlavek is principal conductor of London's BBC Symphony and chief conductor designate of the Czech Philharmonic.
The Miami Herald reviewer had nothing but good things to say about the performance, which included pieces by Dvorak, Haydn, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff.
"Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor may be one of the most overplayed warhorses in the repertoire but there was nothing hackneyed about Horacio Gutierrez's take-no-prisoners performance…No less impressive was Belohlavek's finely nuanced conducting. The orchestral strands of a Rachmaninoff concerto have rarely been conveyed with such precision and clarity of detail. With a blazing pianistic display and inspired conducting, this proved the high point of the ensemble's 2011 Miami residency."
Enjoy the rest of Budman's opus here.