Canada Oesterle, Grieg, Copland, Stravinsky: Stewart Goodyear (piano), Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Tania Miller (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 3.2.2016. (GN)
The Victoria Symphony on Its 75th Anniversary Tour
Month: April 2016
Naturalistic Dancing from Nuñez and Muntagirov in Royal Ballet’s Giselle
United Kingdom Adolphe Adam, Giselle: Soloists, Corps de ballet and Royal Opera House Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth (conductor). Broadcast to the Empire Cinema, Basildon, Essex. 6.4.2016. (JPr)
Verdi’s Macbeth – Spirits and Ravens Are Witness to a Dark and Dangerous Love
Switzerland Verdi, Macbeth: Soloists, Chorus of Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich, Teodor Currentzis (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, 3.4.2016. (RP)
Fine Performance of Rusalka from Stuart Stratford and Scottish Opera
United Kingdom Dvořák, Rusalka: Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 5.4.2016. (SRT)
(c) James Glossop
The Padmore/Lewis Partnership Triumph Again with Schwanengesang
United Kingdom Schubert: Schwanengesang: Mark Padmore (tenor) and Paul Lewis (piano). Town Hall, Birmingham, 4.4.2016. (GR)
Two Views of Mendelssohn’s Symphonic Scotland
United States Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Mendelssohn: Akiko Suwanai (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 1.4.2016. (BJ) Bartók and Mendelssohn: Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 4.4.2016. (BJ)
A Superb Quartet Raises Questions of Proportion
United States Salonen, Mozart & Beethoven: Johannes Quartet, Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 31.3.2016. (BJ)
Zurich Alumni Orchestra’s Valiant Efforts with Popular Programme
Switzerland Sibelius, Ravel and Gershwin: Alumni Orchestra Zurich, Johannes Schlaefli (conductor), Andreas Janke (violin), Tonhalle, Zurich, 4.4.2016. (JR)