United Kingdom Verdi, Dvořák, Wagner & Brahms: Thelma Handy (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor), Guild Hall, City of Preston, Lancashire 11.4.2018. (MC)
Month: April 2018
David Hare’s Glyndebourne Origin Story Fails to Hit any High Notes
United Kingdom David Hare, The Moderate Soprano: Duke of York’s Theatre, London, 11.4.2018. (JPr)
An Outstanding ORF Vienna RSO Concert of Schuller, Zimmermann, and Dvořák
Austria Schuller, Zimmermann, and Dvořák: Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / John Storgårds (conductor). Musikverein, Vienna, 6.4.2018. (MB)
A Machover Premiere Celebrates the City of Brotherly Love
United States Bernstein, Machover, Musorgsky (orch. Ravel): Westminster Symphonic Choir (Joe Miller, director) Keystone State Boychoir and Pennsylvania Girlchoir (Stephen M. Fisher, artistic director), Sister Cities Girlchoir (Alysia Lee, artistic director), Temuri Tavelishvili (boy soprano), Ben Bloomberg (audio technology), Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 7.4.2018. (BJ)
Hugely Energetic and Committed Performance from Adès and LPO
United Kingdom Adès, Barry and Stravinsky: Thomas Trotter (organ), Toby Spence (tenor), Dame Kristin Scott Thomas (speaker), Trinity Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Adès (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 11.4.2018. (AS)
A First Charity Classical Music Concert at Finchcocks on 27 May
Broadwood Piano Concert At Finchcocks
Finchcocks, a renowned piano museum turned contemporary piano school, has announced it will be hosting its first charity classical music concert this May. The concert is being organised in collaboration with John Broadwood and Sons, taking place on the 27th May 2018 and starting at 7.30pm. The intimate evening of music will celebrate the bicentenary of the delivery of one of Thomas Broadwood’s best pianos to Beethoven.
Acoustic and Electric Violas in an Ingenious Program
United States Mozart, Hummel, Mooke, Fauré: Born Lau (viola), Martha Mooke (electric viola), Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia / Dirk Brossé (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 2.4.2018. (BJ)
Mahler’s Song of the Earth Moves Audiences in Ways Worldly and Celestial
United States Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde: Russell Thomas (tenor), Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano), Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), TEATROCINEMA / Yuval Sharon & Juan Carlos Zagal (co-directors), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 6.4.2018. (DD)
