United Kingdom Mozart, Bruckner: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Mariss Jansons (conductor), Barbican Hall, London , 3.4 .2014 (GD)
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Youth Choir Demonstrates Continuing Success of El Sistema
United Kingdom Simón Bolívar Youth Choir, Lourdes Sánchez (conductor): St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 7.4.2014 (PCG)
Virtuosic But Puzzling Recital from Buniatishvili
United States Liszt, Ravel, Chopin, Stravinsky: Khatia Buniatishvili (piano). Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 7.4.2014. (DA)
Fasten Your Seat Belts: Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk in Conversation with Geoffrey Newman
Canada Fasten Your Seat Belts: Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk in Conversation with Geoffrey Newman 7.4.2014
Randy Behavior and Bourgeois Bad Manners in Don Pasquale
United States Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Soloists of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Omer Ben Seadia (stage director), Mark Gibson (conductor), CCM Corbett Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH. 4.3.2014 (RDA)
The Wisdom Of Maturity: Pinchas Zukerman And Yefim Bronfman
Canada Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms: Pinchas Zukerman, violin, Yefim Bronfman, piano, Chan Centre, Vancouver, 6.4.2014 (GN)
Mediocre Salome Fails to Shock
Germany Richard Strauss, Salome: Soloists and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera / Asher Fisch (conductor), National Theatre, Munich, 2.4.2014 (MC)
Hardly a Good Night for Puccini or WNO’s Reputation
United Kingdom Giacomo Puccini (1858-1925), Manon Lescaut (1893): (Sung in Italian with subtitles in English and Welsh.) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Lothar Koenigs (conductor), Venue Cymru (North Wales Theatre), Llandudno. 2.4.2014.