United States Elgar, Britten, Rachmaninoff: Kirill Gerstein (pianist), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra / Karina Canellakis (conductor), Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH. 4.1.2019. (RDA)
Canellakis and Gerstein in a Blockbuster Rachmaninoff Third
Year: 2019
Remarkable Recital by a Prime Ambassador for the French Horn
United Kingdom Avex Recital Series: Nobuaki Fukukawa (horn), Eriko Takezawa (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 5.1.2019. (CC)
Baroque at its Boldest from Elicia Silverstein
United Kingdom Baroque at the Edge [II]: Elicia Silverstein (violin), St James Clerkenwell, London, 5.1.2019. (CS)
English National Ballet’s Swan Lake Emerges Memorably from the Mists
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Dancers of English National Ballet and English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland (conductor), London Coliseum, 3.1.2019. (JPr)
BSO’s Glittering Johann Strauss Gala Brightens New Year’s Day
United Kingdom Johann Strauss I & II, Josef Strauss, Lehár, Nicolai, Heuberger: Fflur Wyn (soprano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Rösner (conductor), The Lighthouse, Poole 1.1.2019. (IL)
for their New Year Johann Strauss Gala concerts
Grieg Grainger Piano Rolls: an Equivocation
At the 1988 Last Night of the Proms, Andrew Davies conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Percy Grainger as soloist. Grainger’s part was played from a couple of piano rolls he made in 1921. (The hugely popular performance is captured on YouTube [click here].)