Featured Reviews
2019-2020 Season
...Earth and Air played with entrancing color throughout.
...the group played with an admirable cohesion and rhythmic precision.
The performance was wonderful — Ellis and friends clearly put a lot of work into this fiendishly difficult music. When they bowed close to the bridge, it was delightfully creepy, emphasizing the dissonant soundscape as though with an icy highlighter. The dense, constantly changing texture kept emotions high, even in moments of calm. The overall effect in Berg’s two movements was of a continuous storm, and these musicians buffeted the air beautifully.
Sords was technically brilliant, playing with plenty of panache, while Ellis's phrasing was spot-on.
Ellis was clearly having fun with the piece, and the players responded in kind......
-----Cleveland Classical
the two soloists performed with a musical sophistication to their performance that many musicians can only hope to achieve.....
Announcing our 5th Season
Friday, November 1, 2019
Splendor Falls on Everything Around:
Music of Mahler, Coleridge-Taylor
and Schoenberg
7:30pm
St. Paul's Episcopal Church: The Nave
Cleveland Heights, OH
Friday, February 7, 2020
(CANCELLED)
Chamber Music in the Round
Featuring
works of Ravel and Smyth
7:30pm
St. Paul's Episcopal Church: Tucker Hall
Cleveland Heights, OH
Friday, April 3, 2020
Romanian Decadence
Featuring
George Enescu's Octet for Strings
Earth and Air and
Case Camerata Chamber Orchestra
7:30pm
Harkness Chapel
Case Western Reserve University
11200 Bellflower Rd. Cleveland, OH
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The opening movement immediately revealed Earth and Air’s warm, resonant, and unforced tone. They played with lush vibrato — lithe and supple — with just the right amount of sentimentality.
-----Cleveland Classical