A New Production of Falstaff Opens in Madrid
26/04/2019
Verdi, Falstaff: Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra / Daniele Rustioni (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 23 & 24.4.2019. (JMI)
Teatro Real’s Falstaff © J. del Real
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater Set in a Fascinating Context
26/04/2019
Holy Week at Versailles II: Sophie Junker (soprano); Eva Zaïcik (mezzo) with Serge Goubioud, Hugues Primard (tenors), Emmanuel Vistorky (baritone), La Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre (conductor), Chapelle Royale, Versailles, 19.4.2019. (CC)
Vincent Dumestre © François Berthier
Jordi Savall Makes Bach’s Matthäus-Passion a Profound Meditation
26/04/2019
Holy Week at Versailles I – Bach, Matthäus-Passion BWV 244: La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall (conductor), Chapelle Royale, Versailles 17.4.2019. (CC)
Jordi Savall © David Ignaszewski
Another Rewarding Evening of Schumann and Fauré with Steven Isserlis and Friends
24/04/2019
Schumann and Fauré: Veronika Eberle (violin), Arisa Fujita (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 23.4.2019. (AS)
Steven Isserlis (c) Satoshi Aoyagi
Musical Virtues of Staatsoper’s Meistersinger Hampered by Incoherent Production
24/04/2019
Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin. 21.4.2019. (MB)
Staatsoper’s Die Meistersinger (c) Bernd Uhlig
Superb Shostakovich from the Pavel Haas Quartet at Wigmore Hall
24/04/2019
Shostakovich: Pavel Haas Quartet (Veronika Jarůšková & Marek Zwiebel [violins], Jiří Kabát [viola], Peter Jarůšek [cello]), Wigmore Hall, London, 22.4.2019. (CS)
Pavel Haas Quartet (c) Marco Borggreve
Simone Young’s San Francisco Debut
22/04/2019
Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov: Louis Lortie (piano), San Francisco Symphony / Simone Young (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 19.4.2019. (HS)
Louis Lortie © Elias Photography
The Komische Oper’s La bohème is More Memorable than Poro
22/04/2019
Puccini, La bohème and Handel, Poro: Soloists, Children’s Chorus (chorus director: Dagmar Fiebach), Chorus (chorus director: David Cavelius), and Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin / Jordan de Souza and Jörg Halubeck (conductors). Komische Oper, Berlin, 19. and 20.4.2019. (MB)
Komische Oper’s La bohème (c) Iko Freese/drama-berlin.de
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