United States Falla, Rodrigo, Palomo, Dyens, Piazzolla, Sarasate, Paganini: Augustin Hadelich (violin), Pablo Sáinz Villegas (guitar), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 10.11.2016. (BJ)
Bernard Jacobson
An Australian Brings Polish and Emotional Heft—Plus an Arnold Rarity
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)
‘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)