United Kingdom Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: performed by Ian Bostridge (tenor),Joseph Middleton (piano). The Barber Institute, Birmingham, 3.2.2014 (GR).
Ian Bostridge’s Winterreise is a Magnificent Obsession
Month: February 2016
Exciting Piemontesi Plays a Brace of Mozart Concertos with SCO
United Kingdom Beethoven, Mozart: Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 04.02.2016 (SRT)
Impressive Mendelssohn from Pablo Heras-Casado
Austria Salzburg Mozartwoche (3) – Mendelssohn: Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Werner Güra, Dániel Aŕva (tenors), Matthias Winckhler, Marcell Attila Krovokay (basses), Arnold Schoenberg Chor (chorus master: Erwin Ortner), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg 30.1.2016. (MB)
(c) Salzburg Mozartwoche
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s Rice: Primal, Elegant, and Moving
United States Lin Hwai-min, Rice: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 29.1-2016-31.1.2016. (JRo)
Curtis Students in a Thrilling Pendant to Mentors’ Viennese Fest
United States Webern, Schumann, and Brahms: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 30.1.2016. (BJ)
Webern: Im Sommerwind
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
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United States Busoni, Berio, and Mahler: Curtis Symphony Orchestra, members of the Curtis Opera Theatre, Ludovic Morlot and Conner Gray Covington (conductors), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 31.1.2016. (BJ)
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque, Op. 42
Berio: Sinfonia
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major
Simon Keenlyside and Malcolm Martineau: A Perceptive Partnership in Schubert
United Kingdom Schubert: Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 31.1.2016. (CC)
Alec Frank-Gemmill’s Recital Combines Superb Programming and Superb Delivery
United Kingdom MacMillan, Beethoven, Casken, Schumann: Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Alasdair Beatson (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 1.2.2016. (CC)
Satisfying Student Performances of Modern American Classics at RWCMD
United Kingdom United Kingdom Carter, Copland: Woodwind Quartet, Chamber Orchestra / Michael Cobb (conductor), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 27.1.2016. (GPu)