Students from the Kent Blossom Music Festival also joined their Cleveland Orchestra counterparts for part of the performance.
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Finnish guest conductor Hannu Lintu strode onstage at the Blossom Music Center on July 27, all six-feet-plus of him, as purposefully as the hero in Lemminkäinen’s Return. The opening work on The Cleveland Orchestra’s program on Saturday was the fourth tone poem in Jan Sibelius’s “Lemminkäinen Suite,” based on Finland’s national epic, the “Kalevala.”
The opening is odd but beautiful. After an introduction of “ticking sounds” in pizzicato strings, the cello enters with a lyrical statement that Kosower deepened with his trademark warm tone and gentle vibrato. He also showed a willingness to resolve Walton’s opposing impulses. After an enigmatic quotation from Wagner’s death-odorous Tristan appears, Kosower played the spiky, comedic music that followed with equal conviction.
This grew the orchestra by half again, and the effect was like turning a yacht into a cruise ship: It added splendor while decreasing the turning radius of the craft. Wind soloists were splendid, especially flutist Jessica Sindell, whose solos during the Largo wafted gloriously. Oboist Jeffrey Rathbun also cast his luminous sound into the night. Hornist Michael Mayhew soared heroically during his big solo, and harpist Jody Guinn played beautifully in her Largo duet with Carolyn Warner’s celeste.
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