Heggie’s Opera: Sentimental, Colorful, Effective, and Mostly ‘Wonderful’
21/11/2018
Jake Heggie, It’s a Wonderful Life: Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera / Patrick Summers (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 17.11.2018. (HS)
Golda Schultz (Clara) & William Burden (George Bailey) (center) with the Angels
(c) Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera
The Brodsky Quartet: In Time Of War
20/11/2018
Tanaka, Schulhoff, Shostakovich, Brubeck, Crumb: Brodsky Quartet (Daniel Rowland & Ian Belton [violins], Paul Cassidy [viola], Jacqueline Thomas [cello]), Kings Place, London, 18.11.2018. (CS)
Brodsky Quartet (c) Martina Simkovicova
A Splendid Revival of a Rarely Seen de Nebra Opera
19/11/2018
de Nebra, Venus y Adonis (concert version): Los Músicos de su Alteza / Luis Antonio González (conductor), Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, 18.11.2018. (JMI)
Luis Antonio González and Los Músicos de su Alteza (c) CNDM
Puts and Campbell Dramatize the Christmas Truce of 1914
19/11/2018
Kevin Puts, Silent Night: Soloists, Washington National Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Nicole Paiement (conductor), Washington National Opera, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., 17.11.2018. (RRR)
WNO’s Silent Night (c) Teresa Wood
Recalling Audrey Hepburn in a Moving Tribute to Anne Frank
19/11/2018
Tilson Thomas, Beethoven: Isabel Leonard (narrator), San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 15.11.2018. (HS)
Isabel Leonard, Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony
(c) Brandon Patoc/San Francisco Symphony
Monteverdi Vespers in Llandaff Cathedral
19/11/2018
Monteverdi: Charlotte Bowden, Jessica Cale (sopranos), Ruari Bowen, Tom Kelly, James Robinson (tenors), Dan D’Souza, William Stevens (baritones), Cardiff Polyphonic Choir, Réjouissance, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, David Miller, Matthew Nisbet, Eligio Luis Quinteiro (cittarone, theorbo), Andrew Wilson-Dickson (continuo) / David Young (conductor). Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, 17.11.2018. (PCG)
LA Opera’s Hansel and Gretel – a Holiday Treat to Savor
19/11/2018
Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / James Conlon (conductor), Members of Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 17.11.2018. (JRo)
Susan Graham (the Witch), Sasha Cooke (Hansel) & Liv Redpath (Gretel)
© Cory Weaver
Inspiration and Daring from Hrůša and Cleveland Orchestra
16/11/2018
Kabelač, Stravinsky, Shostakovich: Emmanuel Ax (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 15.11.2018. (MSJ)
Emmanuel Ax (c) Maurice Jerry Beznos
