United States CDMX: New Music from Mexico – Guzmán, Waller, Castaños, Naranjo, Syrse: LA Phil New Music Group / Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 17.10.2017. (DLD)
Douglas Dutton
The Sacred and Profane Spar for Top Billing in LA Master Chorale Season Opener
United States Bernstein, Orff: So Young Park (soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Stephen Powell (baritone), Los Angeles Master Chorale and Orchestra / Grant Gershon (conductor), Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (directed by Anne Tomlinson), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 23.9.2017. (DLD)
LA Opera Orchestra Members Deliver the Goods
United States Mozart, Berg, Brahms, Bernstein: Elizabeth Zharoff (soprano), Steven Becknell (French horn), Stuart Clark (clarinet), Milena Gligic (piano), Pittance Chamber Music / Susan Segal (concert host), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 16.9.2017. (DLD)
LA Master Chorale Ends a Superb Season with a Look to the Future from a Not-So-Distant Past
United States Salonen, Childs, Smiley, Whitacre, Kirchner, Lauridsen: Los Angeles Master Chorale and Orchestra, Grant Gershon (conductor), Jenny Wong (assistant conductor), Eric Whitacre (guest conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 23.6.2017. (DLD)
Rich and Varied Musical Fare from the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra under Vladimir Spivakov
United States Mozart, Shostakovich, Bruch, Popper, Grieg, Bellini, Verdi, Cilea, Gulda, Poulenc, De Curtis: Hibla Gerzmava (soprano), Danielle Akta (cello), Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra / Vladimir Spivakov (conductor & violinist), Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Los Angeles, 10.6.2017. (DLD)
Yuja Wang Conquers the Piano World and Beyond in a Monumental Bartók Program
United States Stravinsky, Bartók, Janáček: Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Los Angeles Master Chorale/Grant Gershon (director), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. (DLD)
A Superb Performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor by the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart
United States Bach: Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (contralto), Benedikt Kristjansson (tenor), Jakob Pilgram (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart / Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 18.4.2017. (DD)
An Intimate and Idiosyncratic Goldberg Variations in Southern California
United States Bach, Goldberg Variations: Mark Robson (piano), Boston Court Performing Arts Center, Pasadena, California, 10.3.2017. (DLD)