United States Various Composers, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society: Soloists, American Philosophical Society, Perelman Theater, Philadelphia. 1-4.12.2015. (BJ)
Bernard Jacobson
Cecile Licad in American Piano Sonatas through the Centuries
United States Reinagle, MacDowell, Siegmeister, Griffes: “First American Sonatas”: Cecile Licad ( piano); Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 24.11.2015 (BJ)
Noseda Introduces the United States to an Unfamiliar Masterpiece
United States Rossini, Rachmaninoff, and Casella: Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Simon Trpčeski (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 27.11.2015 (BJ)
Kavakos as Brilliant as Ever in Sibelius Concerto
United States Liszt, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 20.11.2015. (BJ)
Three Concerts Show Chamber Music of All Shapes and Sizes
United States Chopin, Schumann, Mozart, and Schumann/Debussy: Zoltán Fejérvári and Kuok-Wai Lio (pianos); Curtis Institute of Music, Field Concert Hall, Philadelphia, 17.11.2015 (BJ)
A World Premiere Yields to Evergreen Sibelius and Copland
United States Sibelius, Copland, and Hannibal: Laquita Mitchell (soprano), Rodrick Dixon (tenor), Delaware State University Choir, Lincoln University Concert Choir, Morgan State University Choir (J. Donald Dumpson, choral direction), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 13.11.2015. (BJ)
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Presents Yet Another Superb Quartet
United States Haydn, Shostakovich, and Beethoven: Michelangelo String Quartet, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 12.11.2015 (BJ)
Anne Sofie von Otter in Philadelphia: A Singer With All the Virtues
United States Purcell, Dowland, Robert Johnson, Kapsberger, Dalza, Provenzale, Couperin, Michel Lambert, de Visée, M.-A. Charpentier, Rameau, Pärt, et al.: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Dunford (theorbo), Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord and organ), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 11.11.2015. (BJ)