Since his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in December 2001, Pinchas Steinberg has returned to Cleveland as a guest conductor frequently enough to have a quantifiable rapport with the players.
Under his articulate and communicative baton, they play with a collective personality distinct from their performances under other maestros; they become the Steinberg Cleveland Orchestra.
Steinberg’s precise and voluble stick technique can’t hide the fact that he is a big romantic at heart, which was evident from the opening notes […]
Steinberg broadened the tempo perfectly and shaped the orchestra’s underpinnings with a sensitivity that reminded one of his decades as an acclaimed conductor of opera.
MARK SATOLA, THE PLAIN DEALER, 15 FEBRUARY 2009