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)
Year: 2018
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)
A Suk Rarity Expresses an Avalanche of Grief
United States Brahms, Suk: Sergey Khachatryan (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 7.4.2018. (MSJ)
An Impressive Pianist and an Extraordinary Orchestral Ensemble
United States Chapela, Barber, Rachmaninoff: Inon Barnatan (piano), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra / James Gaffigan (conductor), Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio. 7.4.18 (RDA)
Insights Are Not Always Illuminating
United States Schumann, Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven: Sir András Schiff (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 31.3.2018. (BJ)
Wessex Consort Sings Thomas Hardy Poems at His Family Church Near Dorchester
[Updated Tuesday 17 April 2018 – Seen and Heard International is sad to report the passing of Graham Stansfield on Friday 13 April, following a long struggle against cancer, an illness he steadfastly refused to make concessions to. He worked consistently throughout lengthy and often debilitating periods of treatment. Indeed, just six days before he had introduced his latest work – new settings of poems by his beloved Thomas Hardy – at a concert in St Michael’s Stinsford, the Hardy family church, given by the Wessex Consort ensemble he co-founded with conductor Andrew King.]
United Kingdom Graham Stansfield: Wessex Consort (Vicky Jackson, Alison Gormley, Melissa Stansfield [soprano], Sarah Palfreman-Kay, Natalie Davies [mezzo-soprano], Aino Konkka, Ellie Edmonds [alto], Matt Spillett, Michael Aitkenhead [tenor], Tom Asher, John Twitchen [baritone], Tim Emberson, Andrew Fellowes [bass]), Andrew King (conductor), St Michael’s Church, Stinsford, Dorchester, 7.4.2018. (IL)
Aljaž Škorjanec, Janette Manrara and Company are Absolute Joy in Remembering Fred
United Kingdom Various composers, Remembering Fred: Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara (co-creators and choreography) and Company (Adrian Hansel, Miranda Wilford [featured singers], Charlie Bruce, Aaron Bryan, Scott Coldwell, Alastair Crosswell and Veronica Fulton), Gareth Walker (director and choreographer), Barnaby Dickenson (musical director), London Palladium, 7.4.2018. (JPr)
A Bernstein Celebration Enriches the 2018 VSO Spring Festival
Canada Bernstein, Mahler, R. Strauss: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Bramwell Tovey (conductor). (GN)
Leonard Bernstein and Bramwell Tovey in 1986 © Susie Maeder (London)