United Kingdom Prokofiev: Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Crouch End Festival Chorus, students of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, students of the Royal Academy of Music, Aidan Oliver (voice of Lenin), Philharmonia Voices, Philharmonia Orchestra /Vladimir Ashkenazy, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 18.5.2018. (PCG)
Month: May 2018
Impressive Orchestral Unison from Thielemann and Staatskapelle Dresden
Germany Weber, Liszt, Brahms: Denis Matsuev (piano), Staatskapelle Dresden / Christian Thielemann, Semperoper Dresden, 19.5.2018. (MC)

An Impressive Opening Night Butterfly at the 2018 Glyndebourne Festival
United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2018 [1] – Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Glyndebourne Chorus (chorus master: Nicholas Jenkins), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Omer Weir Wellber (conductor). Glyndebourne Opera House, 19.5.2018. (MB)

Another Special Evening at Großen Garten with the Music of J.S. Bach the Clear Winner
Germany Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2018 [7] ‘Cellomania’ – J.S. Bach: Christian Poltéra, Christian-Pierre La Marca, Harriet Krijgh, Alban Gerhardt, Alisa Weilerstein, Pieter Wispelwey (cellos). Palais im Großen Garten, Dresden, 18.5.2018. (MC)

with five of the six cellists for the Bach cello suites
Massenet’s Werther Revival by Zurich Opera is Easy On Eye And Ear
Switzerland Massenet, Werther: Soloists, Chorus and Children’s’ Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Lorenzo Viotti (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich 18.5.2018. (JR)

Jonas Kaufmann Proves Less than Ideally Suited to Lieder by Richard Strauss
United Kingdom Korngold, R. Strauss and Elgar: Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Jochen Rieder (conductor), Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, 19.5.2018. (AS)

Dance Loses Out to Narrative in NB’s Jane Eyre Despite Strong Performances
United Kingdom Northern Ballet’s Jane Eyre: Soloists, Coryphée and Dancers of Northern Ballet, Northern Ballet Sinfonia / John Pryce-Jones (conductor). Sadler’s Wells, London, 15.5.2018. (JO’D)

in Jane Eyre (c) Emma Kauldhar
This Concert of Prokofiev and Mahler by the Concertgebouw Will Lodge Resolutely in the Memory
Germany Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2018 [6] – Prokofiev, Mahler: Daniil Trifonov (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Daniele Gatti (conductor), Kulturpalast, Dresden, Germany 16.5.2018. (MC)

(c) Oliver Killig