United Kingdom Mozart, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Pärt, El-Khoury, From Bach to El-Khoury: L’arte del mondo, Daniel Hope (violin/director) Birmingham Town Hall, 18.5.16 (GR)
Geoff Read
A Gold Medal for this Piano Marathon from Igor Levit
United Kingdom Beethoven & Rzewski: Igor Levit (piano), Birmingham Town Hall, 10.5.2016. (GR)
Faustian concept cleverly updated by MacRae and Walsh in The Devil Inside
United Kingdom Stuart MacRae, The Devil Inside: Music Theatre Wales / Michael Rafferty (conductor), Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 18.4.2016. (GR)
The Padmore/Lewis Partnership Triumph Again with Schwanengesang
United Kingdom Schubert: Schwanengesang: Mark Padmore (tenor) and Paul Lewis (piano). Town Hall, Birmingham, 4.4.2016. (GR)
Enthusiastic Performances of 1920s Triple Opera Bill by Birmingham Conservatoire
United Kingdom Holst, Vaughan Williams & Ravel, Savitri, Riders to the Sea & L’Enfant et les sortilèges: Students of Birmingham Conservatoire / Fraser Goulding (conductor), Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, 10.3.2016. (GR)
BRB Continue their Our Shakespeare Celebrations with a Classic Romeo and Juliet
United Kingdom Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Koen Kessels (conductor, Birmingham Hippodrome, 24.2.2016. (GR)
A Dream of a Start to Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Shakespeare Celebrations
United Kingdom Mendelssohn & Chopin, Sir Frederick Ashton Double Bill: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Paul Murphy (conductor), Jonathan Higgins (piano), Birmingham Hippodrome, 17.2.2016. (GR)
Ian Bostridge’s Winterreise is a Magnificent Obsession
United Kingdom Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: performed by Ian Bostridge (tenor),Joseph Middleton (piano). The Barber Institute, Birmingham, 3.2.2014 (GR).
