Italy Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala, Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), La Scala, Milan, 19 & 21.2.2014 (JMI).
Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala: Playing Safe Does Not Always Work
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Melville’s Whale Spawns a Successor
United States MATA Interval 7.2, Moby Dick: Extracts on Death and Other Curiosities: West Fourth New Music Collective, ISSUE Project Room, New York City. 21.2.2014 (DS)
Ana Maria Martinez in Triumphant Rusalka Premiere
United States Dvořák, Rusalka: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sir Andrew Davis, (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 22.2.2014 (JLZ)
Youth Orchestra Excels in Wagner, Strauss and New Commission
United Kingdom Charlotte Bray, Wagner, Strauss: CBSO Youth Orchestra / Jac van Steen (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 23.2.2014. (RD)
Jordi Savall and Juilliard415 Bring Magic to Music for Shakespeare
United States Robert Johnson, Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell: Stage Music in the Plays of William Shakespeare, Juilliard415, Juilliard Actors from Group 45, Jordi Savall (director), Manfredo Kraemar (concert master), Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, 24.2.2014, (SSM)
Photo (C) Hiroyuki Ito
Exceptional Playing from one of the Great Masters of the Piano.
United Kingdom Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Richard Goode (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 24.02.14 (RB)Great Brahms, Debussy and Haas Performances from Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic
Germany Brahms, Haas, Debussy: Berliner Philharmoniker / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Philharmonie, Berlin, 22.2.2014 (SRT)
Extraordinary Playing of Britten and German Composers at the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Germany Schumann, Britten, Mendelssohn: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor), Gewandhaus, Leipzig, 21.02.2014 (SRT)
