United States Connesson, Prokofiev, Strauss, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz, Respighi: Vadim Repin (violin), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra / Stéphane Denève (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 20 & 28.4.2018. (BJ)
Bernard Jacobson
‘Greatness-Squared’ from Finley and Drake
United States Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Various: Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Julius Drake (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 20.4.2018. (BJ)
Trifonov in a Jamboree of Overwhelming Tonal Splendor
United States Rachmaninoff, Bartók: Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 15.4.2018. (BJ)
A Machover Premiere Celebrates the City of Brotherly Love
United States Bernstein, Machover, Musorgsky (orch. Ravel): Westminster Symphonic Choir (Joe Miller, director) Keystone State Boychoir and Pennsylvania Girlchoir (Stephen M. Fisher, artistic director), Sister Cities Girlchoir (Alysia Lee, artistic director), Temuri Tavelishvili (boy soprano), Ben Bloomberg (audio technology), Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 7.4.2018. (BJ)
Acoustic and Electric Violas in an Ingenious Program
United States Mozart, Hummel, Mooke, Fauré: Born Lau (viola), Martha Mooke (electric viola), Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia / Dirk Brossé (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 2.4.2018. (BJ)
Insights Are Not Always Illuminating
United States Schumann, Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven: Sir András Schiff (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 31.3.2018. (BJ)
A Barenboim Protege Makes a Dazzling Debut
United States Lindberg, Stravinsky, Prokofiev: David Bilger (trumpet), Philadelphia Orchestra / Lahav Shani (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 23.3.2018. (BJ)
The Rewards of Normality Enrich a Notable Schöne Müllerin
United States Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin: Thomas Meglioranza (baritone), Reiko Uchida (piano), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 18.3.2018 (BJ)