United States Weill, Ravel, and Gershwin: Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 10.4.2016. (BJ)
Bernard Jacobson
Brilliance and Stylistic Insight from a Youthful Piano and Violin Duo
United States Mozart and Janáček: Andrew Tyson (piano), Benjamin Beilman (violin), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 8.4.2016. (BJ)
Do I Repeat Myself? Very Well – I Repeat Myself
Do I Repeat Myself? Very Well – I Repeat Myself by Bernard Jacobson
Ohlsson and the Takács in a Transcendent Elgar Piano Quintet
United States Beethoven, Webern and Elgar: Takács Quartet, Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 13.4.2016 (BJ)
Intellect Outbalances Beauty in Doric String Quartet’s Schubert
United States Haydn, Janáček, and Schubert: Doric String Quartet, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 5.4.2016. (BJ)
Impressive Music-Making Outside the Top-Orchestra Circuit
United States Grieg, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Beethoven: James Rester, Kenneth Bell, John DeVivo, and Albert Houde (horns), Reading Symphony Orchestra, members of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra*, Andrew Constantine (conductor), Santander Performing Arts Center, Reading, Pennsylvania. 2.4.2016 (BJ)
Two Views of Mendelssohn’s Symphonic Scotland
United States Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Mendelssohn: Akiko Suwanai (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 1.4.2016. (BJ) Bartók and Mendelssohn: Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 4.4.2016. (BJ)
A Superb Quartet Raises Questions of Proportion
United States Salonen, Mozart & Beethoven: Johannes Quartet, Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 31.3.2016. (BJ)