Switzerland Schubert: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Tonhalle Maag, Zurich 28.5.2021. (JR)
Paavo Järvi’s ‘Great’ performance of Schubert’s Ninth with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
John Rhodes
Czech works by Dvořák and Suk championed at Zurich’s Tonhalle Maag
Switzerland Dvořák, Suk: Josef Špaček (violin), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Jakub Hrůša (conductor). Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 30.4.2021. (JR)
Bringuier returns to Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich with exuberant Rachmaninov under Covid restrictions
Switzerland Rachmaninov: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Lionel Bringuier (conductor). Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 23.4.2021. (JR)
For Holy Week there is a fine Zurich St. Matthew Passion to be seen online soon
Switzerland Bach: Jan Petryka (Evangelist), Milan Siljanov (Jesus), Hannah Morrison (soprano), Anke Vondung (alto), Konstantin Wolff (bass), Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Orchestra La Scintilla / Florian Helgath (conductor). Kirche Oberstrass, Zurich 27.3.2021. (JR)
Brahms’s Deutsches Requiem at Zurich Opera: extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures
Switzerland Brahms: Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Konstantin Shushakov (baritone), Chorus of Zurich Opera, Members of the Zürcher Singakademie, (chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger), Philharmonia Zurich / Gianandrea Noseda (conductor). Zurich Opera House, 7.2.2021 livestream from Zurich Opera, live on ARTE TV, available on ARTE Mediathek as video on demand (until 6.8.2021). (JR)
Christian Gerhaher illuminates Zurich’s rather grey Simon Boccanegra with its permitted audience of 70
Switzerland Verdi, Simon Boccanegra: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Fabio Luisi (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich, 6.12.2020. (JR)
(c) Monika Rittershaus
Lucerne Festival’s plans for Summer 2021
Lucerne Festival hopes and expects their summer festival to go ahead as planned. Advance ticket sales for the Summer Festival start on 27 April 2021; the detailed programme will be published on 13 April. The festival will feature the symphonies of Anton Bruckner. Herbert Blomstedt and the Vienna Philharmonic will take on his Fourth, the … Read more
Tómas Tómasson’s stentorian, dark baritone resounds in a mixed Zurich song recital
Switzerland Fauré, Vaughan Williams, Ravel: Tómas Tómasson (baritone) and Rafael Gordillo (piano). Pauluskirche Zurich, Zurich, 26.11.2020. (JR)
