United States Gluck, Mozart, Respighi, Arnold: Ricardo Morales (clarinet), Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia / Kynan Johns (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 7.11.2016. (BJ)
Bernard Jacobson
‘A Curate’s Egg’: Langrée Achieves Mixed Results
United States Schnittke, Beethoven, Brahms: Midori, Juliette Kang and Kimberly Fisher (violins), Philadelphia Orchestra / Louis Langrée (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 5.11.2016. (BJ)
Jerusalem Quartet Blends Lightness and Charm with Breadth and Intensity
United States Haydn, Prokofiev, Beethoven: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky & Sergei Bresler [violins], Ori Kam [viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 31.10.2016. (BJ)
Altinoglu’s Brahms First Went Better Than It Sounded
United States Dutilleux, Mendelssohn, Brahms: Veronika Eberle (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra / Alain Altinoglu (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. 29.10.2016. (BJ)
Profundity and Poetry in Zacharias’s Pianism
United States Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann: Christian Zacharias (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 1.11.2016 (BJ)
A Happy Marriage of Old and New from Polonsky and Weiss
United Kingdom Mozart, Hartke, Shumann, Mendelssohn: Anna Polonsky & Orion Weiss (piano duo), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 23.10.2016. (BJ)
Emotion and Technique Perfectly Balanced in Colin Carr’s English Program
United States Britten, Adès: Colin Carr (cello), Thomas Sauer (piano), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 20.10.2016. (BJ)
A Superb Opening for the String Quartet Season (bis!)
United States Schubert, Shostakovich: Belcea Quartet (Corina Belcea & Axel Schacher [violins], Krzysztof Chorzelski [viola], Antoine Lederlin [cello], Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 17.10.2016. (BJ)