France Takemitsu, Chausson, and Zemlinsky: Michel Rousseau (alto flute), Nicolas Tulliez (harp), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie, Paris, 4.5.2018. (MB)
Month: May 2018
An Exciting Month of Verdi at the Deutsche Oper Includes a Disappointing Rigoletto
Germany Verdi, Rigoletto: Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper / Guillermo Garcia Calvo (conductor), Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 7.5.2018. (JMI)
An Uplifting ‘War and Peace’ Commemoration from The Tallis Scholars
Canada Various composers, War and Peace: The Tallis Scholars, Chan Centre, Vancouver, 21.4.2018. (GN)
Dartington Community Choir and Quartet 19 In Concert
United Kingdom Toch, Brubeck, Glass, Maxwell-Davies, Whibley, Orff: Dartington Community Choir, Simon Capet (conductor), Quartet 19 (percussion ensemble), Milly Forrest (soprano), Robert Jenkins (tenor), Julian Chou-Lambert (baritone), Clare Talbot (piano), Kristian Lindberg (piano, Harriet Riley (percussion), Great Hall, Dartington, 6.5.2018. (PRB)
Flash Contemporarium Showcases Three World Premières
United Kingdom Daniel Parsons and Luciano Williamson – Flash Contemporarium: Connor Fogel (piano), Andrew Martin (flute), Hiroko Sue (koto), Harvey Kelly (cello), chamber ensemble / Luciano Williamson (conductor). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 6.5.2018. (PCG)
Abandoned Liszt Opera Sardanapalo Premieres in Weimar in August
World Premiere of an Abandoned Liszt Opera in Weimar – 170 Years Later Under its Principal Conductor Kirill Karabits, the Staatskapelle Weimar will give the world premiere of a rediscovered Italian opera Sardanapalo by Franz Liszt – which was left incomplete and has lain largely forgotten in a German archive for almost 100 years. ‘The … Read more
Scottish Opera’s Outstanding Performances of Rare Rachmaninov Operas
United Kingdom Rachmaninov, Aleko and Francesca da Rimini: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Theatre Royal Glasgow, 6.5.2018. (GT)
Simon Rattle and the LSO Perform Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde
United States Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde: Stuart Skelton (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), David Geffen Hall, New York, 6.5.2018. (RP)
