Holst, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Ravel: The Bridge Quartet [Colin Twigg, Catherine Schofield (violins), Michael Schofield (viola), Lucy Wilding (cello)], All Saints’ Church, Cheltenham, 26.9.2015. (RJ)
Year: 2015
A Fine Bruckner 8 – But Not As You Might Know It
Switzerland Bruckner: Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) , Zurich Opera, Zurich. 27.9.15 (JR)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Original version, 1887)
Magnificent Playing from Strings in BBC Scottish Orchestra’s Mahler 10
United Kingdom Glazunov, Mahler: James Ehnes (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 27.9.15 (SRT)
Fine Orchestral Playing under Wigglesworth in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth
United Kingdom Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), London Coliseum, London. 26.9.2015 (JPr)
(c) Clive Barda
The Cuarteto Casals Prompt Fresh Thoughts about Familiar Music
United Kingdom Haydn, Mozart, Schubert: Cuarteto Casals [Vera Martínez-Mehner & Abel Tomás (violins), Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomàs (cello)], Wigmore Hall London, 25.9.2015 (CS)
An Impressive Mahler Third Launches the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 2015/16 Season
United Kingdom Mahler: Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Trinity Boys Choir (chorus master: David Swinson), BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus master: Stephen Jackson), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 24.9.2015 (MB)
Zurich Opera’s Wozzeck ̶ Stark, Brutal, Transcendent
Switzerland Berg: Wozzeck, Soloists, Chorus and Children’s Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor), Zurich Opera, 25.09.2015 (RP)
Florian Boesch Continues the Wigmore Hall’s Schubert Odyssey
United Kingdom Schubert: The Complete Songs II Florian Boesch (baritone); Malcolm Martineau (piano). Wigmore Hall, 24.9.2015 (CC)