Switzerland Haas, Käser, Wicky, Bruckner Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Kent Nagano (conductor), Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet (Balthasar Streiff, Lukas Briggen, Jennifer Tauder, Michael Büttler), Tonalle, Zurich 24.4.15 (JR)
Month: April 2015
Colourful Oklahoma Production Evokes the Outdoors
United Kingdom Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oklahoma!: Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 25.4.2015. (SRT)
Highly Cinematic Mascagni/Leoncavallo Double Bill from The Met
United States Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo, Pagliacci: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Fabio Luisi (conductor), Relayed to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 25.4.2015. (JPr)
The Music and Magic of John Williams
Singapore Williams: Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Samuel Phua (saxophone), Jason Lai (conductor), Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore, 04.24.2015 (RP)
Uplifting Mahler Resurrection Symphony from the Czech Philharmonic
United Kingdom Mahler & Bruch: Sarah Fox (soprano), Jana Hrochová Wallingerová (mezzo), Josef Špaek (violin), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, CBSO Chorus / Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 24.4.2015 (GR).
Thoughtful Stagings of Music by Georg Haas at the Royal Opera
United Kingdom ATTHIS (a staging of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Second String Quartet and the song cycle ATTHIS): Claire Booth (soprano), Laure Bachelot and Rachel Maybank (dancers), London Sinfonietta, Pierre-André Valade (conductor). Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 24.4.2015 (JPr)
Tanztheater Wuppertal Receive Standing Ovation for Bausch’s Ahnen
United Kingdom Monteverdi, Dowland, Traditional,Jazz, Ahnen: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Sadler’s Wells, London, 23.4.2013 (J.O’D)
Ehnes Excels in Nielsen’s Violin Concerto
United Kingdom Sibelius, Nielsen, Beethoven: James Ehnes (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Thomas Søndergård (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 24.4.2015 (SRT)