United Kingdom Total Immersion – Oliver Knussen at 60: Soloists, Guildhall New Music Ensemble, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Baker, Oliver Knussen (conductors). Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Barbican Hall, London, 4.11.2012 (MB)
Month: November 2012
La Catrina Quartet Ranges Widely
United States Haydn, Revueltas, Frank, Ponce, and Dvořák: La Catrina Quartet; Meany Hall, Seattle, 30.10.2012 (BJ)
Formidable And Emotional – Hélène Grimaud In Recital
United States Mozart, Berg, Liszt, and Bartók: Hélène Grimaud, piano; Meany Hall, Seattle, 1.11.2012 (BJ)
Pepita Jiménez Premieres With Age Restriction at Teatro Argentino
Argentina Albéniz, Pepita Jiménez: Soloists, Orchestra, Chorus and Children’s Chorus of Teatro Argentino. Conductor: Manuel Coves, Teatro Argentino, La Plata. 28.10.2012. (JSJ)
Kaija Saariaho Talks About – and Premieres – “Frises”
Turkey Ysaÿe, Bach, Saariaho: Richard Schmoucler (violin), Jean-Baptiste Barriere (electronics),“Ciacona” at Borusan Music House’, Istanbul, 02.11.12 (AM)
Gil Shaham’s Transcendent Mozart
United States Mozart and Haydn: Ludovic Morlot (conductor), Seattle Symphony, Gil Shaham (violin), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 25.10.2012 (BJ)
ENO’s Pilgrim progresses via Death Row
United Kingdom Vaughan Williams, The Pilgrim’s Progress: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Martyn Brabbins (conductor). London Coliseum, 5.11.2012. (JQ)
Two Italian Views Of Imprisonment at the Teatro Real
Spain L. Dallapicolla, Il Prigioniero, G. Puccini: Suor Angelica: Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Ingo Metzmacher (conductor), Madrid Teatro Real, 2 & 3.11.2012 (JMI)